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Corporate-driven industrialisation has failed to create the jobs that India’s youth need. We need a different kind of growth based on reducing the productivity gap between rural and urban India. The author presents an agenda for raising rural productivity so that quality employment is created in the rural areas.
In a press statement, the Morcha has condemned the Modi government’s implementation of mandatory Aadhaar-based wage payments for MGNREGA workers from January 1, saying it will render 8.9 crore rural workers ‘ineligible’. Also: The Congress condemns this.
Education has led to high mobility, especially in the poorer Marathwada region, but opportunities remain few alongside dwindling incomes, shows a data analysis.
GOI efforts to spin a jobs growth narrative has meant the following: it is not willing to recognise a glaring problem, and hence no concrete efforts are needed to change economic policy to make the growth pattern more labour-intensive.
‘Coal Block Allocation: Govt Ignored State Entities in Favour of Pvt Firms With “Questionable” Backgrounds, Alleges EAS Sarma’. Also: ‘Adani’s Alleged Irregularities on Import of Coal Again Under the Scanner’.
Very few are actually asking why these poor subaltern kids were daring to repeat Bhagat Singh’s act, knowing that they will face serious consequences. Also: ‘Drop the UAPA Charges Against Youth Arrested in Parliament Jumping Case: PUCL’; and ‘Unemployment, Inflation: Rahul Gandhi Blames PM Modi’s Policies for Parliament Security Breach’.
A long-standing plan to shift water between rivers in north-central India powers on, despite new science that casts doubt on its efficacy, and concerns over major ecological impacts.
One of the striking findings of the Bihar Caste Survey is that absolute poverty in the country is far more pervasive than what successive governments in India have been claiming. Also: ‘’Over 74% Indians Unable to Afford Healthy Diet’: UN Report’.
The Harshad Mehta scam served as a stark warning against the perils of unregulated capitalism, but its message was overshadowed by the narrative of economic liberalisation. Post-liberalisation, India witnessed large-scale pilfering from state-owned banks, further eroding public trust in financial institutions.
Saturday marked 39 years of the horror when methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Indian subsidiary of the now-defunct American firm Union Carbide Corporation killing thousands.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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