How the New Free Grain Scheme Will End up Increasing Poverty
Now, concessional grain being given would no longer be available and the poor will be forced to buy 64% of their foodgrain requirement from the market at a high price.
Demand for Jobs Under MGNREGA has Reduced But Is Still Higher than Pre-Pandemic Years
FM Nirmala Sitharaman recently claimed in Parliament that the demand for work under MGNREGA is declining. What she forgot to mention is that the demand for jobs is still higher than it was in 2019-20, before the pandemic struck.
India’s Creeping Industrial Stagnation
The sharp and apparently intriguing fall in industrial production in October, and feeble post-Covid recovery, points to a deep-rooted malaise in the Indian economy.
Why the Private Sector Is Immune to the Constitutional Goal of Social Justice
There is a growing need to discuss the constitutional immunity to reservations that the private sector has enjoyed, even as it has deepened caste cleavages in India.
PM-Kisan: Who and How Many are Getting Income Support of Rs 6,000?
Surely, the Centre doesn’t know; had that not been the case, it wouldn’t be giving multiple sets of data, all of which contradict each other.
Welcome to the Ambaniverse
From food to gadgets to sports, the business empire of one of the world’s richest men touches the everyday lives of millions in India.
Banks Wrote Off Rs 10 Lakh Cr Loans in Five Years: FM
Banks have written off bad loans worth Rs 10,09,511 crore during the last five fiscals, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the Rajya Sabha on December 13.
Jobless Numbers Are Touching 5 Crore
Labour force has still not recovered to pre-pandemic levels, according to CMIE.
Dharavi Dreams: The New Redevelopment Plan Ignores the Rights of the People Who Built It
The Adani group recently won the bid to redevelop 260 hectares of Mumbai’s Dharavi settlement. While planning profit-focused redevelopment of Dharavi, no one ask’s what Dharavi is, what the people who live here worry about, and how they would themselves like this area to be transformed.
Privatisation of Public Sector Banks Would Run Counter to the Constitutional Obligation of the Government
The Finance Minister has announced that the government is going to privatise public sector banks in due course. A word of caution for the government about the far-reaching implications of privatising any PSU bank.