Tamil Nadu Extends Acclaimed Breakfast Scheme to 29,463 More Schools
The Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme in Tamil Nadu provides breakfast to primary school children, addressing hunger and improving attendance.
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The Hollowness of the Modi Government’s Tall Claims and Self-Praise on Economy
The BJP and Prime Minister Modi use official data to buttress their tall claims on growth, inflation and other issues. The ground reality is at variance from the rosy depiction by the government.
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Shooting the Messenger: Adverse Health Trends Revealed in the NFHS (5) 2019-2021
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.
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Amidst a Govt-Enforced Data Vacuum, Stagnating Wages & Rising Costs Increase Economic Distress in Rural India
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.
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How Reforms Made India Suit-Boot Economy
The poorest 40% of Indians would have been better off today had Indira Gandhi not launched Operation Forward in 1982.
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Do We Know How Many People in India Live in Poverty?
India’s poverty estimates are outdated. In the absence of accurate data, social security schemes cannot be expected to reach their intended targets.
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Jawaharlal Nehru’s ‘Whither India’ (1933) Remains as Relevant Today as It Was Then
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.
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The Mission Creep Problem in Panchayat Finances
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.
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Wages of Casual Workers and Self-Employed Workers in India
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.
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In the Chokehold of a Wood-Fired Stove
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.
