KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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NREGA sangharsh morcha asks for withdrawal of NMMS app for marking compulsory worker attendance
In the recent week, the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) has dealt three major, concerted blows to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA): (1) The Budget allocation for NREGA was reduced to just Rs 60,000 crore in 2023-24 (less than Rs 50,000 crore if we deduct wage arrears from 2022-23). This makes this year’s allocation the lowest as a proportion of GDP (0.2%) in the history of the programme. (2) The...
More »Quality fear in rules for foreign varsities -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph Some educationists feel that the proposed regulations might turn higher education into a purely commercial venture New Delhi: Foreign universities ranked globally among the top 500 or other foreign higher education institutions considered “reputed” can set up campus in India and decide their fees, according to the University Grants Commission’s draft rules that also appear to suggest these institutions can repatriate their profits. Some educationists fear that the proposed regulations, uploaded...
More »Nasal vaccine priced at Rs 800 before taxes -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph Centre’s vaccine policy advisers earlier this week approved release of intranasal vaccine into the private market New Delhi: Indian vaccine maker Bharat Biotech announced on Tuesday that its intranasal Covid-19 vaccine, approved by the Centre as a booster dose, would be available at private hospitals for Rs 800 plus additional taxes and service charges per dose. People 18 years or older who have taken two doses of Covaxin, Covishield or any...
More »Why quality of free legal aid remains poor in India -Suryanshi Pandey
-IndiaSpend/ Scroll.in Legal aid lawyers are grossly underpaid, poorly treated and overworked. Ayush* is a legal aid counsel providing free services for criminal cases to those who cannot afford lawyers, at the Karkardooma District Court in Delhi. He makes about Rs 5,000 a month, on average, he told IndiaSpend. In April, former Supreme Court Justice Uday U Lalit said: “Legal aid to the poor does not mean poor legal aid. There has to...
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