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Surajit Das
COVID-19 Lockdown: Why Compensation to Workers is Overdue in India
20 Nov 2020
The trade unions in India are demanding an ex gratia cash transfer of Rs 7,500 per month to all the workers outside the direct income tax bracket as compensation for income lost for the mo
Neelambaran A
PM-KISAN: 12 Lakh Ineligible Beneficiaries Enrolled in Tamil Nadu, Allege Farmers’ Association
12 Sep 2020
The farmers’ organisations have accused that the political leaders of the state and central ruling parties in collusion with the private computer centres have carried out the work of registering…
Newsclick Team
Cash Transfers Won’t Work: Dipa Sinha
30 Jun 2020
Economist Dipa Sinha, who is a professor with the School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, in Delhi, told NewsClick that this is the right opportunity for the government to strengthen the…
Ranu Bhogal
Gaps in Cash Transfers Risks Leaving Out Many
05 Jun 2020
There’s no replacing a well-oiled healthcare system, a working public education system—both of them state-funded—but DCTs are needed at this moment, for the poor who cannot build up any savings for a…
Newsclick Report
A Month After Lockdown, Food Distress Continues to Remain High for Migrant Workers: Report
09 May 2020
As on April 26, only about 6% of all the workers who reached out to SWAN had received their full wages during the lockdown.
PTI
Karnataka Govt Says no Data on Informal Workers, so Cash Transfer not Possible
18 Apr 2020
As workers run out of cash during lockdown, the state labour minister says the government has no data of unorganised sector workers, such as drivers, farmers, domestic help and others.
Prabhat Patnaik
Sudden Lockdown and Unfolding of an Immense Tragedy
04 Apr 2020
With the Centre being both niggardly and thoughtless in the matter of relief following the unplanned lockdown, state governments, which are desperately short of funds, will be left holding the baby.
Surajit Das
Coronavirus Crisis: How to Reach Out to the Poor and Needy
31 Mar 2020
If there is political will, the government can immediately transfer cash to protect the wage for 21 days at the rate of state-wise minimum wage rate for industrial workers.
Newsclick Team
‘We Are on the Brink of a Recession’
04 Sep 2019
The twin moves – of transferring the RBI surplus to the Union government and merger of banks – will further aggravate the slowdown the Indian economy is facing.
Prabir Purkayastha
RBI Surplus Transfer: Moving People's Money from One Pocket to Another
29 Aug 2019
In order to disguise financing of government spending that does not appear in the formal Budget, the government is moving Rs 1.76 lakh crore from Reserve Bank of India to its own pocket.