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Shiney Chakraborty, Priyanka Chatterjee
Stark Reality of Women’s Employment in India: Insights from the Periodic Labour Force Survey
17 Jun 2020
The analysis suggests that women are the worst casualties of the labour market crisis in India. Since they cannot afford to be unemployed, they were forced to take whatever mode of employment was…
Surajit Das
Agnipariksha for the Poor in India
10 Apr 2020
If government relief does not reach the poor immediately, they would be left with only two options – indulging in anti-social activities or death.
Newsclick Report
Indians Are Consuming Food Devoid of Pulses and Milk
25 Feb 2020
As per the Food & Nutrition Security Analysis (2019) report, in 2015-16, only 9.6% children between 6-23 months were consuming minimum acceptable diet.
Ronak Chhabra
Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims Among Most Excluded From Public Goods: Report
27 Nov 2019
Released on the 70th anniversary of the Indian Constitution, the report studies the role of the state and non-state actors in facilitating exclusion of several sections of the society and denying…
Newsclick Team
Modi Govt Failed to Ensure Employment
01 Nov 2019
The new data on employment shows that the number of jobs have decreased in construction, industrial and service sectors. People have been forced to return to agriculture, where income has decreased.
Prabhat Patnaik
Modi Govt’s Bizarre Unconcern with Hunger and Poverty
28 Oct 2019
Even when India is 16th from the bottom in the Global Hunger Index, the NITI Aayog’s claim that policy change is in ‘right direction’, is based on questionable comparability.
Subodh Varma
Under BJP Govt, Data Comes to Delhi… and Dies
28 Oct 2019
NSSO, Livestock Census, NCRB, even Census data, are slowly getting strangled by delays but more so by wilful omissions of parts.
Prabhat Patnaik
The Dramatic Increase in the Unemployment Rate
14 Jun 2019
The Periodic Labour Force Survey Report 2017-18 clearly shows that there is a sudden jump in the unemployment rates across-the-board in 2017-18, compared to all preceding rounds of the NSSO.
Newsclick Report
CSO Used Shell Companies’ Data in Calculating New GDP Series
09 May 2019
Credibility of the GDP figures now under question; adds suspicion to things being manipulated in favour of the ruling regime, experts comment.
Subodh Varma
Meanwhile, on the Jobs Front…
24 Apr 2019
Latest CMIE data shows that unemployment rate continues to steadily climb up even as PM Modi and his party try to divert attention by talking about air strikes and ‘national security’.