-TheWire.in It has already been a year and a half since the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education. It is high time that governments come up with innovative solutions to deal with the emerging SITuation. July 31, 2021 marked the first anniversary of the National Education Policy 2020. This year also marks the 11th anniversary of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education, 2009 (‘RTE Act’) coming into force. However, the...
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Rajya Sabha clears general insurance bill amid shocking scenes -Damini Nath and Sobhana K Nair
-The Hindu Entire OppoSITion was united in their call to send the Bill to a select committee The contentious General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill, 2021 was passed amidst shocking scenes in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday despite the OppoSITion’s demand to send the legislation to a select committee. The Rajya Sabha passed the Bill that would allow the government to cut its share in public sector insurance companies, paving the way for...
More »No time to lose, says Sunita Narain on the new IPCC report
-Press release by Centre for Science and Environment dated 9th August, 2021 The latest IPCC report confirms that we can no longer lose time in prevarication or in finding new excuses not to act, including empty promises of net zero by 2050. We bring you an appraisal of the report’s findings by CSE director general Sunita Narain * The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the first part of its sixth...
More »Less Jobs, Even Lesser Income Crushing People’s Lives -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in Besides the dire jobs SITuation, what is even more distressing is falling income from surviving jobs. People in India are in the grip of a severe income crisis brought on by myopic government policies and aggravated by mismanagement of the pandemic. Part of this economic collapse is because the absolute number of jobs has shrunk. Another part – not much talked about – is because of low incomes from existing jobs. This...
More »The power of population for economies -Dilip D’Souza
-Livemint.com Development—healthcare, jobs, education—inevitably lowers the total fertility rate Give me a rupee for every time I have heard “demographic advantage" applied to India in the last several years, and I’d be SITting on a small fortune. Invariably, the mentions are tinged with pride, as if we’ve suddenly transformed into a commendably and overwhelmingly young nation. Truth is, we used to be even younger and are getting steadily older. But that’s a story...
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