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In Rajasthan, a demand grows for India’s first law meant to hold government officials responsible for negligence, inaction and delay in delivery of services. Congress chief minister Ashok Gehlot had promised the legislation more than 3 years ago, but the bill yet to be passed.
Hunger and malnutrition have worsened in India with the onset of the pandemic, but the information we have points to a deterioration even before Covid-19.
A new draft agreement between Argentina and the International Monetary Fund has eschewed austerity. It will allow the Argentine economy to grow while the government continues its efforts to reduce poverty and gradually bring down inflation.
If the government partially withdraws some of the concessions / subsidies / transfers of public wealth being given to the rich, and imposes some additional taxes on them, it can raise enough additional revenues to finance a big hike in its social sector expenditures.
Uttar Pradesh didn’t even have an opposition until now. Today, at least, there is a strong opposition, albeit one that the people have created on their own.
Governments of every political dispensation have sought to hollow out India’s rural employment guarantee scheme. Only a mass movement that keeps the vulnerable at its centre can make the MGNREGA what it is supposed to be.
This submission comes at a crucial juncture in Pakistan’s socio-economic history. The Imran Khan government was elected on the manifesto to fight corruption and debt burden. However, it has miserably failed to arrest the galloping public debt and its adverse impacts on the working classes.
India is actually known as the disease capital of the world. It probably accounted for a quarter of the total corona pandemic deaths. The reason for India’s health crisis—which became so evident to everyone during the second covid wave—is the dismal state of our public health system.
The social sector expenditures of the Modi Government are not just far lower than the developed countries, they are even lower than its peer countries. And as regards education, the Modi Government has cut the budget for school education by a huge 40% over the 9 budgets it has presented so far.
Under the distressing times of COVID-19, the Rajasthan Budget 2022-23 guarantees 100 days of employment for families in urban areas. However, the Central government has not paid heed to demands for such a scheme and has even reduced allocations for MGNREGA.
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