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, by BUDDHA Chakradhar
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), India’s rural employment lifeline, faces a catastrophic crisis with over 9 crore (90m) workers wrongfully deleted from its registers in the past three years. Despite compelling evidence of systemic failures, the Union (…)
, by PATEL Suchak
India is currently benefiting from a large working-age population. However, by 2050, the elderly will make up more than 20% of the total population. The UN Population Fund’s India Ageing Report from 2023 predicts that by 2046, there will be more elderly people than children aged 0 to 15. This (…)
, by KABOUB Fadhel
Kenya’s eruption of protests, riots and government repression is the result of decades of failed western financial prescriptions
It took several days of peaceful popular uprisings, violent confrontations with the police and the army, the illegal arrests and detention of protesters, the tragic (…)
, by SINHA Dipa
What we need is a universal old age pension scheme that provides a decent, minimum wage-linked monthly amount to all, excluding those already covered by other pension plans.
With increase in life expectancy and a decline in birth rates, countries across the world are facing an ageing (…)
, by CHAMARAJ Kathyayini
Any attempt at ‘universalising’ pensions without ensuring some contributions from workers, employers and the government would make it unsustainable in the long run.
Several rights-based laws passed recently in Rajasthan have received nation-wide attention. While most are well-intentioned and (…)
, by GroundXero
The National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) has issued a statement calling the Union Budget 2022 an “Utter Failure” in responding to needs of the disabled. The statement pointed out that the government has refused to heed the demand for free and universal health coverage for all (…)
, by BANERJEE Abhivyakti, RAIBAGI Kashyap
Of the Rs 38,685.23 crore collected since 1996 as welfare cess, only 25.8% was spent by 2018.
“I am at the naka (street corner where day workers are recruited) or at a site working all day. I can’t take care of her from there, so I prefer she come with me and earn a bit for the house,” said (…)
, by HARSHVARDHAN
While there is no inferiority in selling pakodas, doing so only due to lack of job opportunities and for the mere purpose of survival is an attack on a person’s dignity.
According to the latest NSSO data, India is undergoing its worst job crisis in the last 45 years. Both male and female (…)
, by VENKATARAMAKRISHNAN Rohan
The Nyuntam Aay Yojana, or minimum income scheme, promises Rs 72,000 per year to 50m households. But where will the money come from?
When Congress President Rahul Gandhi announced in January that his party would provide a minimum income to the poor if it came to power in upcoming Lok Sabha (…)
, by DHAR Sushovan
The ‘World Social Security Report’ |1|, released in 2010, by ILO reported India’s dismal track-record of social security protection for its citizens. It further stated that Indians, especially the poor and the marginalized, suffers from “very high vulnerability” to poverty and informal labor (…)
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