Health and Education Outlays Cut in Budget 2024-25; NREGA Budget Stagnant
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Health and Education Outlays Cut in Budget 2024-25; NREGA Budget Stagnant

Budgets for most of the schemes and departments, such as education, health, social security pensions, and mid-day meals, are either stagnant or have increased only nominally. Accounting for inflation, the NREGA budget is effectively lower by ~Rs 4,000 crore compared to the FY2025 budget.

The Economic Situation in 2023-24, Part 2: India’s Appalling Unemployment Crisis
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The Economic Situation in 2023-24, Part 2: India’s Appalling Unemployment Crisis

This three part series takes a look at the economic situation in the country in early 2024, in the context of the claims being made by the Modi Government regarding the state of the economy. In the second part of this series, we take a look at the unprecedented unemployment crisis gripping the country.

Welfare Spending in the Past Two Decades: Has the NDA Era Been Different?
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Welfare Spending in the Past Two Decades: Has the NDA Era Been Different?

The last two decades have seen little increase in welfare spending. But the NDA government has created an image of being focused on welfare by renaming schemes, appropriating older ones, and starving some UPA schemes of funds.

Rethinking Employment and Industrialisation in India
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Rethinking Employment and Industrialisation in India

Corporate-driven industrialisation has failed to create the jobs that India’s youth need. We need a different kind of growth based on reducing the productivity gap between rural and urban India. The author presents an agenda for raising rural productivity so that quality employment is created in the rural areas.

NREGA Sangharsh Morcha Flays Linking of MNREGA to Aadhaar; Congress Calls it Cruel
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NREGA Sangharsh Morcha Flays Linking of MNREGA to Aadhaar; Congress Calls it Cruel

In a press statement, the Morcha has condemned the Modi government’s implementation of mandatory Aadhaar-based wage payments for MGNREGA workers from January 1, saying it will render 8.9 crore rural workers ‘ineligible’. Also: The Congress condemns this.