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Note the reduction in the rupee amount, just six months apart: Rs32 to Rs28.35. When you lower the line, you’ll find less Indians below it; it’s a good way to claim a reduction in poverty. And even so, remember that 360 million Indians spend less than Rs28.35 a day. Those 360 million are the only Indians we can officially call [...]
Minimum Wages Act Coverage for all Employments Raising The Wage Ceiling in the Employees Provident Fund, Enhancement of Pension Under Employees’ Pension Scheme 95, Portability of PF Account, Reduction in the Requirement of Minimum Continuous Service, Etc. Stress on Matching the Large Scale Skilling Targets with Creating Similar Number of Openings in the Area of Employment Maternity Leave Under the Maternity Benefit Act be Increased from [...]
Nalini Nayak is based in Kerala and has been involved with coastal communities and their issues for over three decades. She is a founder member of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, where she has taken the initiative to collectively evolve a feminist perspective in fisheries. She is presently general secretary of the Self Employed Women’s Association, Kerala, of [...]
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh Monday said that while only 10 percent of Indian villages have full sanitation coverage, the government is dedicated to tackling the issue with both rail and union budgets paying special attention to sanitation. Speaking at an award function organised by Sulabh International, an organisation working for better sanitation in the country, Ramesh said: “It [...]
On the employment front, the country has been able to withstand the adverse impact of the global crisis and generate employment since July, 2009. The Labour Bureau conducted twelve quarterly quick employment surveys to assess the impact of the economic slowdown on employment in India. These surveys indicate that the upward trend in employment since July 2009 has been maintained. [...]
A couple of years down the line, Mumbai residents may be dealing with cabbies and auto-drivers who are full-fledged graduates. Thanks to an open university, deprived sections of the city’s huge workforce will get a chance to enhance their skills. The Nashik-based Yeshwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) has designed special short-term and long-term courses for working classes like cab [...]
About 200 schoolchildren settled in a phalanx with disposable plates and spoons on a green carpet at the primary school in Vatika village near Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. Giant vats arrived a little later with savoury ‘kichri’ (rice and lentil porridge), which was served to the kids. It was through this event that the state launched its food fortification [...]
Commenting in a prominent national daily on the results of a recent survey on child under-nutrition done in 100 districts, and the difference that parity between the genders in nutrition could make, academics S.V. Subramanian and Malavika Subramanian, write, “Stunting is particularly reflective of nutritional circumstances in the first three years of life.” However, the debates around the National Food [...]
Gabriele Dietrich, who hails from what was West Berlin, has spent most of her working life in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, teaching social analysis and feminist theology in a Tamil medium college. She has been intensely involved with women’s movements, unions in the unordanised sector, anti-nuclear campaigns and ecological movements. An excerpt from her memoir, Upholding Each Other, from Making A [...]
Every morning when Sunila Hazda, 19, sets off to work, she is not sure what time she will return home. Her work as a defender of child rights, or Bal Bandhu, requires her to traverse through dense forests and steep hills. She has also to be on guard against snakes and other animals as she walks from village to village [...]
Traditional western Rajasthani delicacies are fast becoming a gourmet’s delight inIndiaand abroad. In fact, no Marwari feast is complete without the “exotic” Sangari, cooked as a dry subzi or with gravy. Of course, Sangari, the fruit of the versatile Khejari (Prosopis cineraria) tree, indigenous to the vastThar desert, has provided nutrition and nourishment to the local communities over generations. As [...]
The Bharatpur slum in Odisha’s captial is a picture of despair: Mud houses with plastic sheets for roofs, refuse scattered around and the stench of human excreta everywhere. But what catches the eye more than the general squalor are ragged, hungry looking children wandering around listlessly. It is against this backdrop that the Swatantra Jatiya Shishu Sramik Vidyalaya (SpecialNationalChildLabourSchool) stands [...]
Minimum Wages Act Coverage for all Employments Raising The Wage Ceiling in the Employees Provident Fund, Enhancement of Pension Under Employees Pension Scheme 95, Portability of PF Account, Reduction in the Requirement of Minimum Continuous Service, Etc. Stress on Matching the Large Scale Skilling Targets with Creating Similar Number of Openings in the Area of Employment Maternity Leave Under the Maternity Benefit Act [...]
Over the past six decades and since the great “Bengal famine”, India had come a long way. We have increased production significantly to ensure that we have enough for all. But we still have difficulty in converting this availability into effective accessibility to food in every nook and corner of the country, and particularly where it is most needed. Besides [...]
Long before the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) came into being, Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) has been in the forefront in Social Engineering. Since 1993 emphasis upon Peripheral development was put and projects were implemented for the same under the Town Administration department. With the experience of Peripheral development, VSP embarked on the path of CSR after allotment of requisite [...]
Some weeks ago an English translation of the Royal Chronicles of Manipur, “The Cheitharol Kumbaba”, was released in Delhi by the author, Nepram Bihari, a retired Meitei official from Imphal after patient translation from the old Meitei script as a labour of love. This is the unbroken chronicle of 76 Manipur kings from 33 A.D until Maharaja Bodhchandra, who [...]
IF a Director-General of Police in charge of jails says that 70 per cent of the 18,000 prisoners in Punjab are drug addicts, then something is seriously wrong with the way prisons are run. Jails are supposed to be well guarded. If still banned drugs can be slipped in for the benefit of jail inmates, is not the DGP supposed to [...]
With a view to providing social security to unorganised workers, including landless agricultural labourers, the Government has enacted the Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008. The Act provides for constitution of National Social Security Board to recommend social security schemes viz. life and disability cover, health maternity benefits, old age protection and any other benefit as may be determined by [...]
‘Apart from female foeticide, malnutrition is a major cause’ Raising concerns over declining sex ratio in the country, Minister of State for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath called for more steps to prevent the issues related with girl child and women. The government needs to work on better policies in collaboration with other public and private institutions, Tirath said [...]
There has been a slow but a steady migration from Kerala, and remittances from migrants form more than 60 per cent of the state’s revenue, reveals a study. Done at the Centre for Development Studies here, this is fifth in the series of comprehensive studies on international and internal migration from Kerala since 1998. According to the study, the number [...]
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