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Poverty and inequality

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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With the NEP's Focus on 'Autonomy', Are We Ushering in a Spirit of Academic Capitalism? -Pramod K Nayar

-TheWire.in Commentators see the National Education Policy 2020's emphasis on choice, modularity and autonomy as disquieting because they see it as pushing the education system into a neoliberal governance mode. In a perspicacious commentary on the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP), social scientist Satish Deshpande noted that multiple exit options “will certainly help in renaming drop-outs as certificate or diploma-holders. But they cannot ensure that these credentials will bring significant benefits for...

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Paddy sowing over in 97% normal area till Sept 2, cloud over final output -Sanjeeb Mukherjee

-Business Standard For all the kharif crops, the acreage, as on September 2, was around 106.92 mha - just 1.27% lower than last year The acreage of paddy — the main foodgrain grown during the kharif season— continued to remain around 6 per cent lower than the acreage during the same period last year. So far, around 97 per cent of the normal area has been covered. Normal area is the average...

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Cylinder, subsidy give-outs on a downhill since FY20 -Parvathi Benu

-The Hindu Business Line Only ₹242 crore was transferred as LPG subsidies in FY22 compared to ₹37,209 crore in 2018-19, shows data The amount of money disbursed as LPG subsidy by the Centre has been steadily coming down since 2019-20. According to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, only ₹242 crore was transferred as LPG subsidies in FY22 compared to ₹37,209 crore in 2018-19. This was when the maximum number of...

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Cylinder, subsidy give-outs on a downhill since FY20 -Parvathi Benu

-The Hindu Business Line Only ₹242 crore was transferred as LPG subsidies in FY22 compared to ₹37,209 crore in 2018-19, shows data The amount of money disbursed as LPG subsidy by the Centre has been steadily coming down since 2019-20. According to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, only ₹242 crore was transferred as LPG subsidies in FY22 compared to ₹37,209 crore in 2018-19. This was when the maximum number of...

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