The Indian economy is often criticised as delivering jobless growth-from 2001 to 2011, the economy’s average growth rate was 7.7 per cent, but the job growth rate was a meagre 1.8 per cent. Reports indicate that matters may not have changed much in the past decade. According to a leaked report from the National Sample…

On Women’s Welfare: Waiting To Take Wing Source link

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Year 2020 will stand out for education across the globe and particularly for India. The Covid pandemic not only severely disrupted the education system but also forced a hurried shift to virtual learning. In India, it was also the year when the New Education Policy (NEP) was unveiled, after a gap of 34 years. The…

In April 2018, the homes in Manipur’s Leisang village were finally electrified-among the last ones of India’s 590,000 villages to get electricity. One could argue that it took over 70 years for the country to take the access to the last man, but a significant milestone had finally been crossed. India inherited from their British…

Seven minutes to midnight. That was the setting of the doomsday clock the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists devised in 1947 to indicate just how close humanity was to a man-made global catastrophe caused by unchecked scientific and technological advances. Initially meant to warn of the dangers of a nuclear war, in recent decades, the…

On India’s Healthcare System: The Stress Factor Source link

If justice delayed is justice denied, then the Indian judicial system has perhaps perennially denied justice to its litigants. In January, a law student filed a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court seeking its intervention in clearing the massive backlog of cases in the judicial system. Consider the numbers. As on July 17, 2020,…

As India turns the page on an economically challenging year, the recovery and reform measures implemented now will prove crucial. When it comes to the economy, past experiences offer context to gauge current challenges. The Indian economy has weathered some major disruptions in the past decades-these include the nationalisation of 14 private banks by prime…