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The number of poor fell sharply during this earlier period, and has risen in recent years. Also: “Daily Wage Earners, Housewives Among Largest Categories of People to Die by Suicide in 2019-21.”
Violence on this scale has to be treated as a social and not an individual phenomenon. The society has itself become toxic and hazardous.
The pandemic demonstrated that the current global public health system is failing the Global South. We need a new one.
Will 2017’s nightmare year for India’s IT industry return in 2023?
The official poor count then stands at 62.5% of Indian households or 813.5 million Indians. At the same time, in January 2023, luxury car makers announced historic high sales of their luxury brands in 2022.
The allocation has come down from Rs 1.11 lakh crore in FY’21 to Rs 60,000 crore for FY’24. The govt is destroying MGNREGA, to create a vulnerable population that could become modern forms of bonded labourers or, worse, enslaved people in a neoliberal economy.
Bachchan said: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, let us discover more of that which is impossible and then do it. Let us bring down the barriers that have blinded our view of the horizons.’ Also: Comment by Apoorvanand: “For Speaking an Unpleasant Truth, Will Amitabh Bachchan Now be Called an Enemy of the People?”
Oxfam study shows extreme wealth and extreme poverty are increasing simultaneously, worldwide.
Now, concessional grain being given would no longer be available and the poor will be forced to buy 64% of their foodgrain requirement from the market at a high price.
FM Nirmala Sitharaman recently claimed in Parliament that the demand for work under MGNREGA is declining. What she forgot to mention is that the demand for jobs is still higher than it was in 2019-20, before the pandemic struck.
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