What Statistics Miss: Even Households Earning Eight Times the Poverty Line Suffer from Deprivation
The poverty line is based on the expenditure required to maintain a minimum level of health, education and nutritional outcome.
Hindutva Attack on Halal Certification Will End Up Hurting Indian Businesses
The certification is a requirement for imports in several countries. Among the companies that have applied for it are Adani Wilmar and Reliance Industries.
Private Companies Exploiting the Coal Crisis – Need for an Investigation
The 2021 coal crisis has severely impacted the power sector. During this crisis, while the 2 CPSEs, CIL and the Singareni Collieries Company, have ramped up coal production to tackle the shortages, the private companies which have been awarded captive coal blocks have taken advantage of the shortages to indulge in profiteering.
Petrol Price Hike and Modi Govt’s Hypocrisy
The hikes are hitting the poor the most. What is needed, therefore, is a policy mix that includes direct taxes on the rich as well as quantitative rationing of petro-products.
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Two-Day Bharat Bandh Against ‘Govt’s Anti-People Policies’
The ‘Bharat Bandh’ strike was called for by ten central trade unions against the “anti-worker, anti-farmer, anti-people and anti-national policies” of the Union government. Their demands included scrapping of the new labour codes, no privatisation, increased allocation of wages under MNREGA, among others.
Unaffordable Education in the New India
A recent NSSO report shows that the recent expansion in education has involved a huge increase in costs for households, creating a situation in which education beyond the secondary level is essentially unaffordable for most working people, and even school education involves high costs.
Persistence of Food Insecurity and Malnutrition
Hunger and malnutrition have worsened in India with the onset of the pandemic, but the information we have points to a deterioration even before Covid-19.
Unfair Share: India Is in Deep Denial About Inequality
“Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does,” George Orwell once stated. Redistribution is an essential function of government—redistribution from the rich to the poor. Today, many governments—not just in India—resist or even prevent redistribution of resources to the poor.
Budget 2022-23 What Is in it for the People, Part V – Proposal for an Alternate, People-Centric Budget
If the government partially withdraws some of the concessions / subsidies / transfers of public wealth being given to the rich, and imposes some additional taxes on them, it can raise enough additional revenues to finance a big hike in its social sector expenditures.
Undermining the Legal Guarantee of MGNREGA: Right, Left, and Centre
Governments of every political dispensation have sought to hollow out India’s rural employment guarantee scheme. Only a mass movement that keeps the vulnerable at its centre can make the MGNREGA what it is supposed to be.