-Review of Agrarian Studies In 2019, the National Statistical Office undertook India’s first-ever national time-use survey, the results of which have recently been published (GoI 2020). Time Use in India 2019 (henceforth, TUS19) provides information on time spent by men and women in rural and urban areas of all States in different activities during one full day. From such a survey, we should be able to gauge the time spent on...
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Post COVID-19, ILO calls for national-level policy on those working from home -Kiran Pandey
-Down to Earth There is an urgency to adopt global labour standards and improve national-level labour registries for home-based workers, organisation says in its new report There is a need to develop effective policies for home-based workers and ensure their proper implementation even as the practice had increased since the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a new report. Just 10 countries had ratified the Convention on...
More »Health Budget must look beyond Covid mitigation -Sourindra Mohan Ghosh
-Hindustan Times This entails addressing prevailing systemic deficiencies along with managing the added burden of Covid-19. India’s health sector requires a two-fold intervention by the government. The extraordinary situation created by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has exposed the vulnerabilities of our fragile health-care system, demands an equally extraordinary intervention by the government. The expectation from the Union Budget 2021-22 is for the central government to lead from the front in the health...
More »Most on Supreme Court committee have backed farm laws, called protests misguided -Udit Misra
-The Indian Express All four members have publicly been in favour of the farm laws and none of them has supported the demands for repealing them. Declaring they will not participate in any court-ordered committee process, the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee has said the members of the committee named by the apex court “are people who are known for their support to the three Acts and have actively advocated for...
More »Supreme Court’s order putting on hold the farm bills is terrible constitutional precedent, bereft of judgment -Pratap Bhanu Mehta
-The Indian Express Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The issues in the farm bills are complex. But no matter which side you are on, you should now worry about how the Supreme Court is interpreting its function. The court is, perhaps unintentionally but damagingly, seeking to break the momentum of a social movement. The Supreme Court is increasingly looking like one of those fantasy creatures with disjointed shapes, where nothing is what it...
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