-Financial Express Dataset and methodological weaknesses cast doubt on recent poverty estimates that claim drastic reduction Bhalla, Bhasin and Virmani in a working paper (IMF), claimed India’s poverty, per a $1.9 per person per day poverty line (at PPP), was 0.9% of the population in 2020. Thanks to government Transfer of free rations of 5 kg per person month, it fell to 0.8% (from 0.9% in 2019). Roy and de Velt, for...
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A New Paradign for Indian Agriculture: From Agroindustry to Agroecology (2022) -Neelam Patel, Bruno Dorin, and Ranveer Nagaich
-NITI Aayog Working Paper, ISBN: 978-81-953811-7-3 Abstract - The importance of agriculture in an economy usually declines as it climbs the development ladder. Raising agriculture productivity has been known to be an important precursor. Labour productivity in agriculture can either be increased by higher land productivity or higher land availability per farmer and mechanisation. In India, however, the dramatic increase in land productivity through industrial farming has caused severe environmental damage and...
More »Andhra govt to introduce cash Transfer scheme as alternate to PDS rice supply -Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
-Hindustan Times As per this system, the Andhra government would pay the cash amount to the people in place of their ration quota of rice supplied through fair price shops under the public distribution system. Hyderabad: The YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh has come out with a direct cash Transfer scheme for the consumers who do not want to take rice under the public distribution system from fair price...
More »PM Free Ration Scheme Kept Extreme Poverty Lowest During Pandemic 2020: IMF
-PTI/ NDTV.com The working paper titled 'Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality: Evidence from India' presents estimates of poverty and consumption inequality in India for each of the years 2004-5 through the pandemic year 2020-21. New Delhi: Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKAY), which provides free foodgrains to poor people, played a key role in keeping extreme poverty in India at the lowest level of 0.8 per cent during the pandemic-hit 2020, according to...
More »Narendra Modi Speaks of Elusive Police Reforms, But Evades the Central Issue -Pratik Kanjilal
-TheWire.in Contrary to the spirit of reform, Modi’s government has sought to arrogate to itself the power to Transfer IAS and IPS officers at will, without the concurrence of state governments. On Sunday, at the first convocation ceremony of the Rashtriya Raksha University in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recommended several progressive steps towards better policing, including the need for a psychological approach for improvements in jail conditions, for personnel to study...
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