By Dr. Gyan Pathak World Population Prospects 2022 has revealed that India ran faster in population race to become largest populated country in the world in 2023, four years ahead than estimated in 2019, bringing unprecedented challenges which needs to be converted into demographic advantage with planning and action at war footing, or else will […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Most of the experts feel that pushing Gig and Platform Economy, in place of formal sector, would further deteriorate working conditions and throw the workforce into exploitative conditions, and therefore, NITI Aayog had to furnish a difficult task to portray worker perspective seemingly so rosy that could soften stiff resistance of […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India finds itself in an unenviable position. Choosing an option has become ever more difficult. Financial sector crisis continues and the country has been suffering from negative shocks to credit growth which pushes up the macro vulnerability and increases downside risks to the growth in GDP. However, as the economy recovers […]
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By Gyan Pathak Social protection for rural workers in ‘remains a dream’ though 80 per cent of the poor of the world live in rural areas. Inadequate safety at work, low wage, lack of stability and security, and excessive working hours are the grinding stones for them in which women and young workers are the […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Political signals emanating from Bihar are important for two major reasons – first, these could drastically alter the contours of politics in the state, and secondly, it could potentially impact the communal politics across the country. The most recent changes include defection in All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) led by Asaduddin […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India has been implementing the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Schemes for decades for addressing severe malnutrition among children aged 6-36 months and pregnant and lactating women (PLW). However, the malnutritions numbers, which are unacceptably high, point to the fact that there is a lot to achieve. India clearly needs even […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The women labour force participation in India has remained low, oscillating between 16 to 23 per cent in the last few years chiefly because structural barriers ranging from access to education, lack of skilling and a direct correlation between gender or disability and incidence of poverty. Moreover, the majority of them […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak If business as usual path continues, the world cannot achieve zero hunger target (SDG2) by 2030, and South and Southeast Asia is likely to suffer the most, with 2.7 billion population in the region. It is 34 per cent of the global population, and almost half live in India. The latest […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Having emboldened by the success in Maharshtra, the BJP has just started its political game in Jharkhand to destabilize the Mahagathbandhan government led by JMM. Chief Minister Hemant Soren has just betrayed his commitment towards opposition unity and ditched the anti-BJP political parties by announcing support to BJP’s presidential candidate Draupadi […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak With demand incentives withdrawn after FY 2024, maximum penetration of electric two-wheelers in India could be 71.54 per cent in Technology Driven Scenario by FY 2031, while with no technological improvement and reduction in battery cost, penetration level of 21.86% only can be achieved even if incentives are continued. However, combination […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Had the Modi Government not been undergoing some fresh resistance from the unemployed youths for yet another disastrous policy experiment in defence recruitment, the rules under four controversial labour codes would have been notified by now for their implementation from July 1, as it had been earlier planned, despite stiff resistance […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Global learning poverty has further increased to 70 per cent in 2022 with largest increases in South Asia and the Latin America and the Caribbean, as per the simulation result based on the latest available data and evidence. It means the world has lost the gains during 2000-2015 when it […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unprecedented unemployment crisis in independent India that has been building up with sharpest ever hike in joblessness since 2014 has finally exploded on June 14, 2022, when the Centre announced Agnipath (literally the Path of Fire) scheme for short term recruitment in armed forces. The Fire triggered eruption, unemployed youths suddenly […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the largest global review by WHO so far, nearly one in eight people have been found suffering with mental disorders while this ratio is one in seven for teenagers. The common conditions, such as depression and anxiety have even gone up by over 25 per cent during the first year […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Surging food costs in South Asia, a region populated by more than one-third of the global poor and where one-fifth of calories come from wheat products, pose significant challenges to poverty alleviation and food security. The World Bank’s projection of downside risks to the economic outlook of the region presents even […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The rise in cases of COVID-19 infection in India now is the sharpest this year which may be an early warning for the fourth wave. Daily infection count in the last 24 hours has touched the figure 7,584, as per the official information available in the morning of June 10, which […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Within 10 days of India celebrating two days Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022 on May 27-28, the technical analysis of drone seized by Indian security forces has revealed an alarming trend of increasing security threat for the country – Drones are being used in smuggling of drugs and weapons from the neighbouring […]
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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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