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In a bizarre development, the government has ‘suspended’ the director of the institute responsible for carrying out the periodic NFHS. The fifth report of the Survey, relating to 2019-21, showed substantial worsening of some health indicators for children and women in particular.
For nearly a decade, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has withheld or criticised available data on poverty. From the interiors of India’s richest state, Maharashtra, a report on how daily wages are stagnant, as inflation and rising costs push more Indians into poverty.
The poorest 40% of Indians would have been better off today had Indira Gandhi not launched Operation Forward in 1982.
India’s poverty estimates are outdated. In the absence of accurate data, social security schemes cannot be expected to reach their intended targets.
In August 1933, Nehru wrote a series of articles published in a pamphlet titled “Whither India?” As our country is still struggling with poverty, inequality of income and agrarian distress, this pamphlet remains as relevant today as it was 87 years ago when it was published.
The 14th FC had recommended transfer of significant quantum of untied funds to local bodies, that would have strengthened fiscal decentralisation. The Union Government accepted this recommendation, but has imposed several conditionalities in the release of these funds, effectively leading to fiscal centralisation.
An article in two parts, that examines the trends in real wages of casual workers and self-employed workers in rural and urban India, before the pandemic, during the pandemic and after.
With little access to clean cooking fuel, many women in Nagpur’s Chikhali slum are now prone to respiratory diseases, breathing difficulties and damaged lungs.
In India, out-of-pocket expenditure of people on health was more than the government’s expenditure on health, according to the Economic Survey 2022. Over 63 million Indians are faced with poverty every year due to health costs alone, according to government estimates.
Mandatory digital attendance has led to 10% decline in work. Also: Press Release by the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha.
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