-The Economic Times The deadline for linking of PAN and Aadhar had been extended several times and now the new deadline is March 31, 2020. So, if a person doesn’t link his PAN with Aadhar by the said date, his PAN shall be inoperative. As per Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act, every person who has been allotted PAN and who is eligible to obtain Aadhaar, shall intimate his Aadhaar...
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How caste impacts migration and its benefits -Priyansha Singh & Chitra Rawat
-India Spend Mumbai: Poverty and lack of opportunity in their hometowns drove 93 million Indians from disadvantaged castes and tribes in 2011 to migrate to other areas within their states in the hope of securing education or employment. However. they continue to face social segregation, labour market discrimination and barriers to accessing the most basic services, finds an analysis of Census data and research studies by India Migration Now, a Mumbai-based...
More »Ugly truth about Assam's detention camps -Sudipta Bhattacharjee
-The Telegraph The plight of an ‘indigenous foreigner' comes as a horrifying reminder of what lies in store As the country heaved over protests surrounding universities and an amended citizenship law this month, a tragic contour unfolded in Assam with the death of a daily wager belonging to an indigenous community. Naresh Koch, who was apprehended and taken to the Goalpara detention centre in March 2018, was declared a “foreigner” in June...
More »The migrating villager whom we refuse to see -Jaideep Hardikar
-The Telegraph NRC, NPR emblematic of our hypocrisy that turns a blind eye to those persecuted by us here Hatingaram’s life is less “here”, more “there”. Here — his village. There — in the open, across the country, under the sky. The ‘Raika’ — a semi-nomadic pastoralist from Rajasthan — are always on the move, lock, stock and barrel. Literally. In his home state, he is a near-absent citizen; in Madhya Pradesh, a...
More »867,964 people joined formal workforce in November, shows payroll data -Prashant K Nanda
-Livemint.com * The number was better than October when 686,158 people joined the formal work but less than any other months in the current financial year * In July it was 1.2 million, and in June it was 1.18 million, in May it was 1.01 million and in April it stood at 1.06 million NEW DELHI: At least 867,964 new people joined the formal workforce in November 2019, an improvement from the month...
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