Shreya Shah
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Why A Flower Farmer Cannot Join The Cashless Economy, A Year After Demonetisation
Keshu Patel and his son Kantilal pluck marigold flowers in his field in Mirjapur, Madhya Pradesh. Post notebandi, the unpredictability of getting cash, which he needs for all his transactions--groceries, payment to labourers, transporters--has left him anxious. → Read More
How Not To Use A Development Fund For Mineral-Rich Areas
It is this anomaly that the PMKKKY scheme seeks to remedy by creating a corpus for local area development from a levy on all mining operations. → Read More
How Not To Use A Development Fund For Mineral-Rich Areas
A stone mine near Samodi village in Bhilwara district, Rajasthan. The Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana empowers India’s mining districts to levy a charge on mining operations to create a fund for development of surrounding areas. The fund in Bhilwara has over Rs 400 crore so far. → Read More
For A Dying Silicosis Patient, A Mining Fund Offers Hope
Deva Singh, 40, of Pratappura village in Bhilwara, Rajasthan, is unable to work because of silicosis. He caught the debilitating, untreatable disease from working at a sandstone mine without any protective gear, as is common across all kinds of mines all over India. → Read More
Setting Up Business In India Faster In Recent Years But Still Long-Drawn Process
It took a manufacturing start-up 83.6 days on average to get land, 58.7 days for construction permits, 44 days to get an electricity connection, and 30.2 days to get a water connection, while the firm faced an average of 33. → Read More
India Has Highest Gap Between Growth Of Top 1% and Entire Population: Study
Between 1980 and 2014, India was the country with the highest gap between the growth of the top 1% of the population by income and growth of the full population, according to a recent working paper by Lucas Chancel, a professor at Science Po in Paris, and Thomas Piketty of the Paris-based Eco... → Read More
India Will Continue To Have The Worst Sex Ratio In South Asia In 2050
India’s sex ratio at birth, skewed in favour of males, will remain the worst in South Asia in 2050, according to estimates from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. → Read More
Current Situation ‘Unsatisfactory’: India’s Top Doc Lays Out New Vision For Health, Research
As many as 332 (57.3%) of medical colleges in India did not have a single research publication between 2005 and 2014, according to a 2016 analysis. In comparison, the annual research output of the Massachusetts General Hospital was 4,600 and the Mayo Clinic 3,700, the paper said. → Read More
Basic Income Could Empower Millions Of Indians, But India May Find Cost Too High
In a country where 21% of the population lives below the poverty line (of Rs 816 per capita per month in rural areas, and Rs 1,000 in urban areas), where the top 10% of the population own 53% of its wealth, with worsening inequality over the last two decades, a basic income could empower mill... → Read More
Basic Income Could Empower Millions Of Indians, But India May Find Cost Too High
In a country where 21% of the population lives below the poverty line (of Rs 816 per capita per month in rural areas, and Rs 1,000 in urban areas), where the top 10% of the population own 53% of its wealth, with worsening inequality over the last two decades, a basic income could empow → Read More
Three Years Into BJP Government, Unemployment Rate Slightly Up
Modi promised 1 crore new jobs in 5 years; 3 years on, the record stands at 641,000 in major industries. → Read More