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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
CEA report states that 202 thermal power plants generated 232.56 MT of ash in 2020-21. Apart from flooding caused by overflow of fly ash slurry, the toxic waste, which is a by-product of coal combustion process, is also known to cause large-scale air pollution.
ThE delay is impacting government schemes, and results in unreliable estimates from other surveys on consumption, health and employment, which depend on census data to determine policy and welfare measures. For example, probably 10 crore people are likely being excluded from the PDS.
Gujarati Dalits will ferry a one-tonne brass coin dedicated to BR Ambedkar to Parliament for the 75th anniversary of Independence. They want to remind MPs that they have failed to eradicate untouchability.
Along with wheat and atta, prices of vegetables, cooking oils, milk and LPG cylinders are all zooming up.
More than 50% of Indians of legal working age don’t want a job due to the lack of suitable employment: CMIE
The Modi government has suddenly banned the export of wheat, after promoting it actively for two months. The debacle was not because of government incompetence, but the result of government’s neoliberal policy – withdrawal from procurement and the free hand given to private profiteers.
India needs to urgently take measures to improve fertiliser availability in the short and long term. The absence of major investments since the 1990s, and now the Ukraine war and the Chinese ban on exports, have created a difficult situation amidst a global imbalance.
India’s democracy is dying in bright daylight because the media is under siege.
On World Press Freedom Day, an examination of irksome new regulations being enforced on the Indian media, and the challenges and opportunities arising especially in the digital domain.
In March, while the Bharatiya Janata Party in Haryana was promoting The Kashmir Files, Kashmiri Pandits in the state were telling us that the government of Manohar Lal Khattar had ignored their pleas for financial assistance in the eight years since they came to power, amid worsening economic woes.
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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