100 Days of Economy & Finance: More of the same. But also forced reversals on some fronts

A hundred days isn’t really enough to evaluate the policies of a regime pertaining to finance and economy, but it is enough so far as to get the drift. And an overview of the...

Read more October 9, 2024 at 10:00 pm CFA

Inequality, Jobs, Hunger: Why You Should Care About the Union Budget

This budget is the last chance for course correction for the Modi regime. It is going to be a test of who the government sides with, the 90% citizens of the country or the...

Read more July 22, 2024 at 3:44 pm Kavita Kabeer & Haripriya Harshan

‘New jobs distress-driven’: Economists criticise CMIE claim of upward trend in employment

At a time when the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s (CMIE’s) report claims an upward trend in employment in India’s labour market with 15 million people entering the workforce, senior economists have sought to...

Read more December 5, 2023 at 5:42 pm Counterview

Economists Term CMIE Employment Rate Increase Claim ‘Sham’

Real earnings have increased only for casual work, economists said at a conference titled ‘Measuring Recovery’. Several economists have termed the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s (CMIE) claim that the labour market witnessed an...

Read more December 4, 2023 at 10:48 am CFA

Time to press the panic button: Job loss is widespread and galloping

India has officially acknowledged that 62.5% of its population or 813.5 million people are extremely poor and need to be fed

Read more January 13, 2023 at 2:44 pm Prasanna Mohanty

The Fiscal Challenges of the Realization of Workers’ Rights: Do They Exist?

For the past 36 years, banks' pensions have not been upgraded. No social security, like universal basic income, is considered. The vast majority of unorganised sector workers (94%) do not have access to provident...

Read more December 23, 2022 at 4:43 pm Thomas Franco

नोटेबंदी पर RBI की भविष्यवाणी कैसे हुई सच? | हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब

नोटबंदी की बात करने से केंद्र सरकार हमेशा कतराती रही है। लेकिन पिछले हफ्ते जब सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने नोटबंदी के खिलाफ याचिका पर सुनवाई शुरू की तो उन्हें मजबूर होना पड़ा। केंद्र सरकार ने...

Read more November 26, 2022 at 2:44 pm CFA

The biggest hurdle in facing the recession is the Govt’s lack of political will

“In my entire career as a public servant I haven't witnessed the extraction of public wealth for private profit on the scale that we see today”, said Jawhar Sircar, Rajya Sabha member, Trinamool Congress,...

Read more November 12, 2022 at 7:10 pm CFA

विश्व भूखमरी सूचकांक | क्या सरकार के पास अपना कोई डाटा नहीं?

दुनिया भर के लोगों की खुशहाली बयां करने वाली विश्व भुखमरी सूचकाँक रिपोर्ट ने भारत को 121 देशों में से 107वां स्थान दिया। सरकार ने एक बयान जारी कर इस रिपोर्ट को गलत बताया...

Read more October 28, 2022 at 12:26 pm CFA

Securing Skilled Jobs for the Present and the Future

As the world recovers from the pandemic, and many across the country are trying to find their feet with gainful employment, a study released early this year by CMIE reveals that agriculture absorbed an additional 11...

Read more August 1, 2022 at 3:59 pm Bhargavi S. Rao

अग्निपथ से कहीं बड़ा बेरोज़गारी का संकट | हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब

रोजगार की मांग को लेकर देश के युवा काफी समय से सड़कों पर हैं। लेकिन हमारी सरकार सुन नहीं रही है या जो सुनना चाहिए वो नहीं सुन रही है। और अब हम भयानक...

Agnipath is just a symptom. The problem is The Great Indian Job Crisis

The Union Govt has cancelled 1,94,000 defence jobs while keeping one-fourth of the total Govt jobs vacant. It hid data about the vacant posts. We need to look beyond the Agniveers; it's just a...

Agnipath: One more disaster in the making

Replacing regular jobs with short-term contractual ones will not only compromise professionalism in the armed forces and national security, but it will also pose a serious threat to social order already torn asunder by...

Read more June 20, 2022 at 1:06 pm Prasanna Mohanty

From 16 Cr Jobs Promised in 8 Years, Only 10 L to Materialize in 18 months!

Mr Narendra Modi promised 2 crore jobs per year in 2014 itself. Now after 8 years, unemployment has increased in great proportions due to demonetisation, GST, lockdowns, contractualisation of labour and not filling up...

Read more June 20, 2022 at 1:02 pm Thomas Franco

34 लाख नौकरियां कहाँ गयीं? | बेरोज़गारी का संकट | हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब

एक तरफ बेरोजगारी दर कम हुई है, वहीँ रोजगार दर भी कम हो रही है। साथ ही सभी देशों में तेल की कीमतों में उछाल नए रिकॉर्ड बना रहा है। पेश है पिछले दिनों...