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Santosh Mehrotra In 1955, the share of the population below the poverty line (NSS 1955) in Uttar Pradesh was 64%, not too different from that in the Madras State (present-day Tamil Nadu), at 73.6%, or in West Bengal, at 53.6%.…
A. Amarender Reddy THE upcoming Union Budget offers a good opportunity to build trust between the government and the farmers. Many farmers are facing three age-old problems — low prices, low yields, and low income. Successive governments are trying to…
Manoj Misra As a commoner, my minimum expectation from any official report prepared using my tax money would be to see that the report makes good sense. Good sense does not necessarily mean good news though. Even if the report…
The National Programme of Mid Day Meal is modelled along the lines of the Mid Day Meal Programme of 1925 by the Madras Municipal Corporation for the disadvantaged children. Post independence, states like Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Kerala and the Union…
Arun Kumar The government is accelerating the process of privatizing the public sector under one pretext or the other. This process was set in motion in 1991 with the new economic policies (NEP) but now using the excuse of dealing…
Tikender Singh Panwar The gap between the top 10% asset holders and the bottom 10% is 500 times in rural India but is shockingly 50,000 times in urban areas, Oxfam, the British founded confederation of 21 independent charitable organizations, reported…
TK Arun China is now the biggest potential source of global economic instability, thanks to mulish persistence with the zero-Covid strategy favored by its authoritarian leadership. This potential instability also manifests the contradiction between centralized decisionmaking and a capitalist economy…