-The Hindu Jan Breman takes a long view of the changes he’s seen in India over half a century. Perhaps no other scholar in the social sciences has studied India’s poor and its informal economy as intensively as Jan Breman. The sheer temporal span of his research is mind-boggling. He began his study in south GujaRAT 15 years after India’s Independence — in 1962. And he was in south GujaRAT in...
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Joblessness highest among Christians, Muslims next
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Joblessness is highest among Christians in comparison with other religious groups, reveals a government survey. The unemployment RATe in the community stood at 4.5% in villages and 5.9% in cities and towns in 2011-12. Muslims come next with an unemployment RATe of 3.9% in rural and 2.6% in urban areas. Joblessness increased in villages across all religious communities, with the unemployment RATe increasing from 1.6% in 2004-05...
More »The reality of school closures -Anurag Behar
-Livemint.com The claims that Right to Education is forcing the closure of thousands of schools is false or ludicrously exaggeRATed Most of us who work with school education have been completely mystified by media reports and related opinion pieces which claim that thousands of private schools are being shut down because of the Right to Education Act (RTE). We (Azim Premji Foundation) conducted a field study to investigate this matter. Getting valid and...
More »Polavaram is reaping the Jan Dhan benefit -Gunturi Naga Sridhar
-The Hindu Business Line The scheme has made life easier for the people of this Andhra Pradesh village, one of the first in the state to have 100 per cent financial inclusion. But the local experience also throws up a few questions relevant nationally, reports Gunturi Naga Sridhar Fourty-year-old M Ravamma, from Polavaram, a village in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, had a nightmarish experience two months ago. Her husband complained...
More »Budget likely to focus on rural-economy schemes to blunt farm crisis -Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times The Modi government is looking to address a worrying agrarian crisis with a set of schemes and Budget provisions aimed at ramping up the larger rural economy, RATher than just the farm sector, people familiar with the development told HT. Budget 2015-2016 is likely to provide for a more effective Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayin Yojana, a flagship scheme announced last year to create irrigation infrastructure, with substantially higher allocations. The...
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