-The Telegraph Food inflation, which accounts for nearly half the CPI basket, soared 8.60% in September 2022 as against 7.62% in August Driven by rising food prices, India's retail inflation accelerated to 7.41% in September, the fastest pace in five months, data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) showed on Wednesday. The number stayed well above the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) upper tolerance band for the ninth straight month. This...
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2 out of 29 Information Commissions are defunct, finds a report by Satark Nagrik Sangathan
-Press release by Satark Nagrik Sangathan dated October 11, 2022 Tomorrow (October 12, 2022) marks 17 years of implementation of the RTI Act in India. The law has empowered millions of people to seek information and hold the government accountable. Under the RTI law, information commissions are the final appellate authority and are mandated to safeguard and facilitate people’s fundamental right to information. Information commissions (ICs) have been set up at...
More »How well did the women workers fare during the pandemic years? The yearly PLFS reports provide some mixed answers.
Do you want a job that does not pay you at all? The answer will be surely 'no' for most of us. And yet, in our previous analysis, it was found that the proportion of 'helpers in household enterprises' among the total number of workers grew over various rounds of annual PLFS (Periodic Labour Force Survey), from 13.3 percent to 15.9 percent between PLFS 2018-19 and PLFS 2019-20, and then...
More »Through a rosy lens -Anup Sinha
-The Telegraph The airbrushing of the Indian economy is damaging The latest Monthly Economic Review from the ministry of finance gives the reader a great deal of comfort by indicating that all is well with the Indian economy. If there is any cause for concern at all, it is from external economic and political shocks: events like the Federal Reserve in the United States of America raising interest rates, or Russia invading...
More »Climate change escalates suicide rates among Marathwada farmers -Himanshu Nitnaware
-Down to Earth Farmer suicides have increased significantly and doubled in some regions where weather extremities incurred heavy losses Farmer suicides in the Nanded district of Maharashtra’s Marathwada more than doubled since incessant rains caused severe crop damage in the region. The suicide cases in Nanded jumped to 26 in August from eight in July, according to official estimates. The total number of farmer suicides reported from the district in 2022 stood at 93...
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