बिहार चुनाव में जंगल राज बनाम सरकारी नौकरी की बौछार

बिहार की राजनीति में अपराध, जाति और सत्ता का त्रिकोण लंबे समय से निर्णायक भूमिका निभाता आया है।जंगल राज’ शब्द का पहली बार प्रयोग 1997 में हुआ था, और उसका संदर्भ आज के राजनीतिक...

Read more October 28, 2025 at 4:29 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

Civil society leaders urge RBI and banks to provide loan relief amid 2025 monsoon disaster losses

More than 100 civil society organisations and individuals — including Medha Patkar of Narmada Bachao Andolan, Shaktiman Ghosh of the National Hawkers Federation, Thomas Franco, former General Secretary of the All India Bank Officers...

Read more September 16, 2025 at 4:43 pm Counterview

Whither Make in India? Unemployment surges despite India’s economic ranking boost claim

India’s rising unemployment continues to cast a shadow over its much-touted economic ascent, with official data revealing that the jobless rate climbed to 5.6% in May 2025 from 5.1% the previous month. The worrying...

Read more June 24, 2025 at 5:30 pm Counterview

Rising Unemployment in a Rising Economy! | Finance Matters, 20 June 2025 | Editorial

While the Union government proudly touts India’s position as the “world’s third-largest economy,” the latest employment data tells a more sobering story, which doesn’t feature in celebratory speeches or glossy campaigns. According to official...

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...