Gyan Pathak

By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the absence of adequate social security for migrant workers, their rural households of largely left-behind women supported millions of migrant workers when they returned after the COVID-19 pandemic struck the country and induced a severe recession that also rendered small traders and operators of microenterprises destitute and reduced the incomes […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Resurgence of OBC politics in Bihar is now spreading to other states as far as even Maharashtra where NCP has renewed its demand for caste based census on June 2, 2022, the day the Bihar state cabinet led by JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar approved the proposal of general administration department (GAD) […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak World is not yet on track to achieve the clean energy access for all by 2030, and at the current rate of progress, 670 million people will remain without electricity by 2030 – 10 million more than projected last year. Currently, 733 million people worldwide still do not have access to […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Twists in Bihar politics has now become perceivable with re-emergence of caste based clamoring among leaders of both national and regional political parties. The complexities and contrasts in the three decades of politics, beginning around 1889 with the well known Mandal vs Kamandal issue, now seems set to undergo a new […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Narendra Modi government’s calling off disinvestment of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and the statement issued in relating to it thereafter is indicative of a disturbing undercurrent in the Indian Economy that should be a matter of great concern since what we are seeing might be only the tip of an […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak After significant gains during the last quarter of 2021, the number of hours worked globally dropped in the first quarter of 2022, to 3.8 per cent below the pre-crisis benchmark in the fourth quarter of 2019. This is equivalent to a deficit of 112 million full-time jobs, which represents a significant […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak There is a 95 per cent chance that the number of people facing food insecurity will rise in the range between 142 million and 243 million by November, from roughly 1.6 billion in mid-May. Moreover, the upward pressure on food prices due to export bans by several countries including India may […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The 75th World Health Assembly, currently in progress in Geneva, Switzerland, that began on May 22 and will conclude on May 28, 2022, has already made a history by adopting a new financial model for global health, but the key to success lies in good governance across the countries of the […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak COVID-19 crisis triggered school closure in India has induced learning poverty to such an extent that the country is set to suffer the worst in South Asia in absolute terms both in respect to jobs loss and decline in GDP, which in turn may accelerate each other creating together a vicious […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Since May 2014,  when Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of India, Union government has introduced a variety of measures to reduce poverty and enhance employment that enabled the country to withstand the shock of COVID-19, claim our PM and officials downwards and his fan club. However, the Economic Advisory Council […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Shelving of the disinvestment programme of the Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) the Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited (PHHL) soon after postponing planned disinvestment programme for another PSU the Central Electronics Limited (CEL) has brought the national attention not only to reexamine the merits and demerits of the Modi government’s overall disinvestment programme, […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Workforce in India is being crushed between inflation and joblessness chiefly on account of wrong policy stance of the Narendra Modi government and the pandemic may be just an additional excuse. Retail inflation (CPI) in April soared to a 8-year high, ie the entire period of Modi Raj, and touched 7.79 […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Youth (age group 15-24) are almost five times more likely to be unemployed than adults across the Asia and the Pacific, and when they secure a work it is often in the informal economy with low wages and poor working conditions. After the COVID-19 pandemic, they are now facing additional labour […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The WHO data on global COVID-19 related deaths was finally out on May 5 despite Modi government’s best of efforts to stall its release which delayed it by at least four months. The actual data was more shocking than the leaked data a fortnight ago since it revealed one death reported […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Most developing member countries (DMCs) are facing serious gaps in student learning outcomes, that the World Bank calls learning crisis. Half of the students in Grade 5 in India cannot do two-digit subtraction or read connected text, and half of the students who complete primary schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan cannot […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Press freedom in India is in crisis though there are over one lakh newspapers including 36,000 weeklies and 380 TV news channels. Such an abundance of outlets conceals tendencies toward the concentration of ownership while media in politically partitioned, journalists facing violence and authoritarian pressures, legal framework no more protective, economic […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Only a few days after the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) alerted that extreme heat was gripping large parts of India and Pakistan impacting hundreds of millions of people in one of the most densely populated parts of the world, the images of land surface captured by INSAT 3D, Copernicus Sentinel 3 […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak “Netaji, do you know the meaning of converting UP into Gujarat? It means 24- hour electricity, no power cut for 356 days in every village and street. You can’t do it. You don’t have the guts to turn UP into Gujarat. It takes a 56-inch chest,” Narendra Modi said amidst rapturous […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The time of reckoning has finally come. The Supreme Court of India is to begin final hearing of petitions challenging sedition law on May 5, 2022, as the Apex Court has said on April 27, and would not entertain any request for any further adjournment of the matter. The three-judge Bench […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The last one week has triggered a range of speculations regarding the direction in which Bihar politics is moving which included the claim that chief minister Nitish Kumar will be moving to play a greater political role in New Delhi and the counter claim that he will remain CM of Bihar […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Economic outlook for all the countries across the world in 2022 remains fragile due to a range of issues including rising COVID-19 caseloads, higher inflation, and Russian aggression on Ukraine. Economic recovery has been assessed to be slower than the projected earlier, which will make labour market recovery even slower. Fostering […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Concealing COVID-19 deaths is anti-people. It saves the exchequer some money that would have been otherwise given as compensation, and the government saves itself from the burden of fixing accountability for the deaths which may necessitate the guilty to put into jails. The greatest beneficiary of this are the rulers, since […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Resurgence of new COVID-19 infection since the withdrawal of curbs — including the mandatory wearing of masks, keeping and use of sanitisers in public premises, and maintaining physical distancing —by several states from beginning of April 2022, is a serious concern, though it is too early to treat it as a […]

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By Gyan Pathak March 2022 has given a clear indication of a deadly cocktail brewing in India with rising inflation, vanishing employment but falling unemployment rate, disappearing jobs from the non-agriculture sector, and the workforce losing jobs in non-agriculture sector returning to agriculture where unemployment is disguised under very low earning. In brief, the symptoms […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak What has been happening in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand now is a clear indication that the fire of hatred is spreading faster than we can douse. It has become a political tool and the major beneficiary is the BJP which is not only ruling these states but also the country. Action […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The erosion of about one per cent of value of rupee in the consumer market within a month was too great a shock for people to absorb. It was felt by everyone in March 2022, and the workers, senior citizens, women and children were among the hardest hit. The latest data […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak When a person in extreme poverty gets food to eat, it is indeed a relief, and absorbs the major chunk of shock from destitution, but does not eradicate poverty. Throwing some loafs of bread before a hungry is not at all a poverty eradication programme, and hence the praise showered on […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India doesn’t know about the real status of the migrant workers in the country even two years after their returning home following sudden lockdown that shook the very conscience of the world during March 24 and May 31, 2020. Modi government had liberally distributed assurances for their well-being which never realized […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s booster dose policy announced on April 8 by Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is clearly anti-poor, since de facto they cannot get vaccinated with booster doses against COVID-19, though theoretically they are also eligible to have it at private vaccination centres along with any adult aged 18 years […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak From April 1, 2022, the majority of drugs have become costlier, and the poor patients are doomed to suffer, which is being termed as the highest ever price hike in the country. Even the drugs under price control mechanism many seem no more affordable for the majority of the common people, […]

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