Govt’s Bizarre Plans of Dealing With Looming Food Grain Crisis
Privatisation of grain procurement and cap on procurement subsidies are among the ideas being floated.
Right to Food Campaign Demands Proper Functioning of MGNREGA
The Right to Food Campaign stands in solidarity with the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha’s national call for action across the country to revive the proper functioning of MGNREGA.
India’s Economic Narrative Might Be Glowing. The Economy Isn’t.
The latest GDP figures are a window dressing under which the economy is unmistakably tottering and the growth trajectory since the pandemic has been ramshackle at best. Incomes are also declining, which means that chances of economic recovery are dim.
Sitharaman’s Remarks Tell Us All We Need to Know About the Govt’s Idea of ‘Welfare’
They believe they own everything – and owe us nothing.
Bank Privatization and the Never-finished Neoliberal Agenda
Successive governments with a neoliberal agenda have not been able to roll-back nationalization, even after thirty years. That fortuitous ‘failure’ shows that the criticism of public ownership of banking is misplaced, and that neoliberal policies have lost their legitimacy.
Underestimating the Unemployment Crisis
The years of high growth have done little to improve a dismal employment picture, and the conditions of work only deteriorated after those heady growth days came to end. The jobs crisis is real. Also: The jobless rate crossed 8% yet again.
How Many Indians are Poor If Even Govt Admits that 800 Million Need Dry Rations?
Recent reports say that the government scheme of giving dry ration to 800 million Indians is set to continue for another three months. In the absence of any official estimate, this is the closest official estimate for the numbers of those who are living below the poverty line.
EWS Reservation Is a Kind of Counter-Revolution
The top court will soon have to answer whether the government’s decision to provide reservations solely on an economic basis violates the basic structure of the Constitution.
When Market Fundamentalism Overcomes Common Sense: Myth of Electricity Markets
So-called electricity markets were created to help private capital, not people. It is time we wound up these bogus markets and returned public services to people, to run cooperatively for their benefit.
The Modi Government and the So-Called “Freebies”
A bizarre drama is unfolding in front of our eyes. The Modi government which has been giving away hundreds of thousands of crores of rupees as tax concessions to the monopolists, has expressed its opposition to what it calls “freebies”, that is, subsidies to other segments of the population.