-Scroll.in The Indian government will have to take serious note of the structural problems and bottlenecks to work on improving the production-linked incentive scheme. On December 20, the Indian government approved a Rs 357.17-crore incentive for Foxconn India, under the Production-Linked Incentive scheme for the Large-Scale Electronics Manufacturing sector. According to government think tank Niti Aayog, Foxconn India is the “first global company” approved under the scheme for mobile phones and to receive...

-Down to Earth The central government has mandated digitally capturing the attendance of all workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGnregs). Labourers and activist groups have opposed this and pointed out several loopholes in the move. The National Mobile Monitoring System, which came into effect on January 1, 2023, was launched with claims of bringing transparency and eliminating corruption at the ground level. Pilot tests began in May 2021 at...

-PTI/ Newsclick.in Percentage of men owning phones in India is as high as 61% while only 31% of women owned phones in 2021. New Delhi: The percentage of men owning phones is as high as 61% while only 31% of women-owned phones in 2021, according to a new report, which claimed that India's growing inequalities based on caste, religion, gender, class, and geographic location are being worryingly replicated in the digital space. Oxfam...

-IndiaToday.in The production-linked incentive scheme has helped boost India's mobile exports but is yet to show results in some other sectors. Agility and ease of doing business in its implementation will determine its success For over a decade, the share of manufacturing in India’s GDP has remained in the 15-17 per cent range, with various measures by the present and past governments barely helping the needle move. A recent effort to give...

-The Telegraph ‘The modalities are being worked out. Some decision will be taken soon on who will be entrusted with the job of live-streaming the proceedings' The Supreme Court has decided to live-stream all constitution bench hearings from September 27 to address pleas to make the highest judiciary’s proceedings transparent and accessible to one and all. The important constitution bench matters that are scheduled to come up for hearing after September 27 include...