Contents1 What is the News?2 What are the findings of the research?3 Why is this research important?4 What are the suggestions provided by the research? What is the News? Research has been conducted to study the employment data in India, for which it used the findings of India’s Periodic labor Force Data survey, National Sample… Continue reading India’s new employment policy ought to focus on young adults
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Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, launches a nationwide River Ranching Programme
Contents1 What is the news? 2 What is river ranching?3 What is the river ranching programme?4 What is the need of this program? 5 What are the potential benefits of the program? What is the news? The Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying has launched a national level River Ranching program in UP. At the same time, other 4 states… Continue reading Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, launches a nationwide River Ranching Programme
India’s informal economy: Challenges and solutions – Explained, pointwise
For 7PM Editorial Archives click HERE → Contents1 Introduction2 What is an informal economy?3 Informal economy scenario 4 What are the challenges associated with informal economy in India?5 What steps have been taken by the government?6 What is the way forward? Introduction The majority of the urban population across the world makes its living from the informal economy. According to… Continue reading India’s informal economy: Challenges and solutions – Explained, pointwise
Some dope on law: Decriminalise cannabis, rework NDPS Act, for investigative focus on hard drugs supply
What is the news? The arrest and custodial interrogation of celebrity attendees of a cruise party has reopened the debate over criminalisation of cannabis. What is the status of cannabis regulation in India? India criminalised cannabis under American pressure in 1985 through the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. As per GoI surveys, even after three decades of criminalization of cannabis, ganja… Continue reading Some dope on law: Decriminalise cannabis, rework NDPS Act, for investigative focus on hard drugs supply
What the continued distress in informal labour market says
Synopsis: Status of informal sector in India, distress faced by them mainly during the Covid-19 pandemic and various impacts of the sustained divergence between the formal and the informal labour force. Introduction Recently released economic data suggests that the Indian economy has emerged from the second wave of the pandemic better than expected. Two broad… Continue reading What the continued distress in informal labour market says
