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As per official MGNREGA data, in 2020-21, the year of the corona pandemic, a record 17.51 million new job cards were issued. Rising demand for low paying labour work under MGNREGA points to the failure of our policy makers to provide suitable jobs.
Scientists describe a ‘culture of silence’ at ICMR, with researchers worried that they would be passed over for opportunities if they questioned their superiors.
Conventionally, it is private investment that drives capitalism. But in recent times, in the U.S. and China, it is public investment that has been the driving force.
The average outstanding loan per household was at Rs 74,121 in 2018-19 compared with Rs 47,000 in 2012-2013, the survey noted.
The PM claimed that there was no APMC system in Kerala and asked why the opposition was “misguiding” the farmers on this issue. Professor R. Ramakumar addresses this allegation and also talks about the various schemes of the State government.
In 2014, the Union environment ministry agreed with an expert recommendation that HEPs shouldn’t be erected in paraglacial zones.
The people of Kendrapada district of Odisha are fighting peacefully to save their river Kharasrota, the lifeline of farmers and fishing communities living besides the river. In the name of providing drinking water to Bhadrak district, the state govt is seeking to divert its water to Adani Ports and SEZ.
A new wave of Dalit artists, musicians and writers is catalyzing the movement for equality by popularizing the struggles of their communities and raising the consciousness of Indian society.
The 2020 lockdown and the partial state shutdowns have hurt millions of informal workers in India, with female workers bearing the brunt of the crisis.
The CM of Assam has announced the launch of a new land-survey to precisely demarcate and record the land-rights in Assam using modern techniques, so that land can be easily bought and sold. This is being done at the behest of the World Bank, so that corporate houses can easily acquire land.
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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