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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
If cleared, the project spread over 1,044 square kilometres will ruin the pristine rainforests in the region.
Anecdotal evidence and data from the latest Periodic Labour Force Survey indicate that economic distress is driving women to take on any sort of work at very low salaries.
The proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill-2022 would weaken the finances of states’ power distribution companies, cripple the states’ finances, impose heavy costs on small consumers (especially farmers), and benefit only corporate houses, says the Peoples’ Commission on Public Sector and Public Services.
The Dakshin Railway Employees Union (DREU) has said that the launch of Bharat Gaurav Trains is an ominous sign of total privatisation of the Railways in the years to come – as it will lead to a complete dry up of railway revenues.
India’s health sector is beset with too many problems most of which can be traced to inadequate funding. Poor funding has led to poor capacity and poor quality of healthcare.
When the Centre decided to sell HNL to private parties on a massive disinvestment drive, the Kerala government stepped in to take over the paper products manufacturer.
India’s once-thriving public vaccine manufacturers were absent during the pandemic. This was not due to a lack of capability. The problem has been active neglect by the government.
The headlong rush to list LIC shows shocking disregard for public interest while pandering to the whims of speculative “investors”. The IPO’s pricing indicates that it is perhaps India’s biggest-ever privatisation scandal.
The government has raised more than Rs 97,000 crore in 2021-22 by leasing out state-owned properties to various private entities, including global pension funds. The properties include those related to coal mining, various bits of highways, power transmission lines, etc.
The then PM Nehru and the then FM Deshmukh, whose foresight and vision had led to the creation of a unique institution of the LIC as a social security provider for the poor, would never have imagined even remotely that their successors six decades later would wantonly dismantle it …
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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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