-TheCitizen.in Forget about 66 per cent increase in crimes against Dalits in last ten years or rapes of Dalit women doubled or a crime being committed against Dalits every 15 minutes. Let us just see what happened in the last one week: - A Dalit boy was killed on Friday for buying and riding a horse in Gujrat demonstrating our hatred and prejudices against Dalits. - A Dalit couple from Kasganj,U.P. has been...
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Forget more jobs, employment fell in first 2 years of Modi government -Pragya Srivastava
-The Financial Express An RBI-backed research by KLEMS India shows that the employment in 27 sectors fell by 0.2% and 0.1%, respectively in the years 2014 and 2015. For a long time, there is a contention that India’s impressive growth story has been devoid of a similar expansion in jobs, with the proponents, on the other hand, calling the theory a hoax. In absence of comprehensive jobs data, India’s actual employment story...
More »Job creation more than doubles to 136,000 in July-Sept 2017: Labour Bureau -Somesh Jha
-Business Standard In the manufacturing sector, 89,000 jobs were created as compared to job loss of 87,000 in the previous quarter and job creation of 24,000 in the same period last year Job creation in the organised sector rose two-fold to 136,000 in July-September 2017 compared to the previous quarter, largely driven by an uptick in the manufacturing sector, latest official estimates showed. In comparison, job creation stood at 64,000 in April-June 2017...
More »Unseen victims of farm distress -TV Jayan
-The Hindu Business Line Kota Neelima digs into farmer suicide cases to chronicle lives often labelled as collateral damage In last November, when All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organisation of around 190 farmer groups from across the country, organised a Kisan Mukti Sansad in Delhi, there was one event that moved almost everyone of thousands present there. About two dozens children of those farmers who had committed suicide in...
More »Crop insurance scheme loses sheen as coverage area reduces
-The Tribune New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government’s flagship crop insurance scheme, launched with much fanfare two years ago, has Witnessed negative growth this year as the coverage has reduced to 24 per cent of gross cropped area (GCA) in 2017-18 from 30 per cent in 2016-17. This, when the actual target for the current year was 40 per cent. Similarly, the number of farmers insured during both the kharif and rabi...
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