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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Budget 2023-24 betrays India’s workforce though it sings its song of achievement under Modi rule since 2014 and eulogizing its “Big Tent accommodating all”. In contrast this “Big Tent” is too small to accommodate the majority of the workforce. The budget tried to create hope for the workforce by simply […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak “The fundamentals of the Indian Economy are sound as it enters its Amrit Kaal, the 25-year journey towards its centenary as a modern, independent nation. Policies pursued carefully and consciously to ensure …” was of course noisy and highly opinionated statement of the Economic Survey 2022-23, but the Union Budget 2023-24, […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Economic Survey 2022-23 is clearly optimistic on Indian economy with downside risks not getting proper focus in the analysis of the policy makers. Though it has projected India’s GDP growth at 6-6.8 per cent for 2023-24, has also cautioned that even as India’s outlook remains bright, global economic prospects are weighed […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak PM Narendra Modi’s assertion during his very first “Rozgar Mela” of 2023, that opportunities for employment and self-employment are continuously improving, was made in contradiction to the facts. There’s a serious distortion in the Indian job market which needs urgent redressal, instead of hollows claims that enormously understate the extraordinary sufferings […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is now the most populated country in the world with a very high rate of urbanization that is expected to reach 41 per cent by 2030 according to the latest estimate of the World Bank in 2022. In 2021, the urbanization rate was 35 per cent as against 26 per […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Budget 2023-24 has fallen into the trap of lower growth prospect that has been estimated downwardly for the current fiscal 2022-23 ending on March 31, 2023, and also for the financial year 2023-24. Union Finance Ministry is under acute pressure of resource mobilization to fund social sector schemes that is […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Budget 2023-24 has a greater responsibility of protecting India’s workforce at a time when they are at high risk of being forced into accepting lower quality jobs, as warned by ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO) Trend 2023, large scale job cuts is adding into the woes of the […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Number of bank fraud cases across India more than doubled in eight years, and about 12 lakh crore rupees were just vanished from the banking system. Indian Economy has been systematically fleeced, both through legal and illegal means, by big borrowers and bank officials. The Centre and the Reserve Bank of […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Budget 2023-24 needs to address the rising inequality in India that has acquired an alarming trend at a time when economic growth of the country is projected to decelerate during the next fiscal. The World Economic Forum in Davos 2023 (January 16-20) is in progress that has also brought the […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global economic slowdown is most likely to force workers to accept lower quality jobs in place of decent works. It has already adversely impacted the global employment growth which has been faltering, and pressure on decent work has considerably increased. Pressure on decent working conditions are even undermining social justice. It […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The World Social Report 2023 has called for concrete measures to support the greying population of the world amidst escalating pension and healthcare costs. It is urgent, since the number of people aged 65 and above are projected to more than double by middle of the current century. The study published […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Joshimath has been sinking for months, but could grab attention of the governments at the Centre and the State only recently that too after the subsidence started dangerously manifesting itself. Warnings served in 1976, 2001, and 2013 were grossly ignored. Human greed continued to explore the natural resources hastening the sinking […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India would be going downhill for the next two years, if Global Economic Prospect just released by the World Bank is of any indication. GDPs for 2023and 2024 have been revised down to 6.6 per cent and 6.1 per cent respectively, which are below 0.5 and 0.4 per cent compared to […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The first week of 2023 has brought the signs of the beginning of even higher level of unemployment in India at 8.4 per cent than 8.3 per cent in December 2022 which was 15 months high. It is indeed a bad news, but not so bad as the Modi government’s trick […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak South Asia still needs to prepare for the worst since there are increasing signs of geo-economic fragmentations. Expenditure needs to meet the Sustainable Development Goals; equity needs to be improved through labour market and social protection reforms as well as gender policies, appropriate measures needed to mitigate and adapt to climate […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak There were 1.3 crore more entrepreneurs in India in 2022 compared to 2018, but there were 1.4 crore people less in employment – 45 lakh fewer men and 96 lakh fewer women – in October 2022 compared to January 2020. Younger unemployed persons are the worst hit by such a Job […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Pledges made by countries in all climate crises summits are really angelic, but what is done is clear dichotomy and hypocrisy, which the world will see in full play in 2023 with rise in production and consumption of coal, the dirtiest of the three fossil fuels – coal, oil, and gas […]

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  By Gyan Pathak Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh were two legislative assemblies that were to expire on February 18 and January 1, 2023 respectively, the elections for which were held in November and December. BJP swept Gujarat but lost Himachal Pradesh, and thus the party begins the year 2023 with its political manoeuvring capability bruised […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The year 2023 is beginning with a prospect of more intensified labour and trade union movement in India. A convention of all Central Trade Unions is already scheduled to be held on January 30 to chalk out an intensive path for concrete struggle to be taken unitedly in the country against […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Micro, Small and Medium enterprises in India struggled for revival in 2022, gained a little momentum, but could not realise its full potential, due to a range of hurdles they faced, including in accessing public finance, rising prices and high inflation increasing input costs, hike in interest rates making the investment […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak New rules are set in 2022 for an entirely new dynamics of education in India. Implementation process of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 were reviewed in a meeting in May 2022 chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi which elicited detailed plans from educations leaders for achieving the goals. Thereafter, education sector […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Universal health coverage (UHC) by 2022 has miserably failed in India. The year that is closing to an end, rather brought a costlier healthcare with price hike of even essential medicines, equipment and services. Deterioration of public healthcare system continued, and the country moved further toward privatization of district hospitals. Public […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Hunger in India remained a major concern throughout 2022 due to slow recovery from the economic downturn after the two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. True, as PM Narendra Modi drumming up, India became the fifth largest economy of the world, but his jubilation conceals the pangs of hunger of 80 […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak We have faced several dramatic weather disasters which claimed far too many lives and livelihoods in 2022. From extreme floods to heat and drought, weather and climate disasters affected millions and cost billions, indicating that climate change has intensified this year, and in the next in 2023, the world would need […]

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