By Dr. Gyan Pathak September 25, 2024, is the tenth birth anniversary of Make in India. It was launched on September 25, 2014. PM Narendra Modi government has tried its best to promote ease of business in the country, but finding the scheme not getting desired momentum, it decriminalized 183 provisions in 2023, in the […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Creating a bad neighbourhood is unwise, especially through totally avoidable unrestrained speeches. However, the leaders from the ruling establishment in India have been in the habit of making unrestrained speeches aimed at winning domestic elections that hurt our neighbouring countries unnecessarily worsening already strained relationships at a time when India is […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak People in 14 states and Union Territories of India were earning below the national average in 2023-24. Out of these 9 are larger states and UTs –Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal, while 5 are smaller – Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, and Jammu & […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Social protection gaps in India are still at alarming level. More than half of the population (51.2 per cent) in the country are still totally unprotected, while over half of the global population (52.4 per cent) are covered by at least one social protection scheme, revealed the latest ILO flagship report […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It is an open secret, but never admitted, that political parties in power often get some candidates contest elections to effect division in opposition votes to facilitate easy win for their own candidates. The “election strategy of the proxy” in Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing some other dimensions added to it: […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Farmers have been demanding legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP), but the Centre has announced 7 new big schemes for farm sector worth Rs14,000 crore on September 2. Modi government said that the schemes intended for farmers welfare, but farmers have been saying that their well-being depend on the legally […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Akal Takht’s declaring Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal a ‘tankhaiya’ on August 30 is most likely to reset the Punjab politics in general and Sikh politics in particular. In the tumultuous history of Punjab, this development is significant. Punjab may be entering a new phase of political […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The issue of caste census has finally mounted on the agenda of the Parliamentary Committee on Welfare of OBCs led by the BJP. The party has been rejecting the opposition INDIA bloc’s demand for conducting caste census in the country. It was much to the frustration of the BJP, that its […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Democratic compact between chief minister and Lieutenant Governor of Delhi has broken in the last ten years, LG VK Saxena has admitted in his opinion piece published in Indian Express on August 28, which is just an expression of the fact existing in all states and UTs where the opposition political […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India bloc’s political moves in Jammu and Kashmir have utterly upset the Union Minister of Home and BJP leader Amit Shah, especially the seat sharing announcement between the National Conference and the Congress, which prompted him to sharply attack Congress on the politically sensitive issue of unity of India asking 10 […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak At a time when Budget 2024-25 is aiming at creating about 3 crore formal jobs, the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for the first quarter of the current financial year shows a decline in the employment in urban India. Women workforce suffered even more than their male counterpart in all […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Supreme Court of India constituted a national taskforce (NTF) to ensure safety of doctors in the country while hearing a suo motu case taking cognizance of the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at R G Kar Medical College on August 9 during her shift. The bench headed […]
CONGRESS IS HOPEFUL OF UNSEATING THE RULING BJP IN THE STATE By Dr. Gyan Pathak With announcement of Vidhan Sabha Election in Haryana by the Election Commission of India on August 16, the political parties in the state are now coming to their specifics after theirs being in election mode for weeks, especially […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi has thrown his hat into the quota within quota ring, that is set by a recent Supreme Court verdict. Though the verdict has allowed a structured reservation policy for SC in job and education by subcategorization of more backward castes for sub-quota relative to other castes in […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Artificial Intelligence revolution could further widen the gap between high and low-income countries, a new joint report from International Labour Organization (ILO) and the UN Office of the Secretary General’s Envoy on Technology has warned, unless cooperative international action is taken to address uneven and low level of investment in […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Even though Supreme Court of India has given its verdict that Lieutenant Governor (LG) of Delhi has power to nominate ‘aldermen’ to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) under Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 without aid and advice of the Council of Ministers of Delhi, LG must continue the tradition of […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak INDIA bloc is now firmly against taxing people on their future crises of life and health, protested within and outside the Parliament against imposition of 18 per cent GST on life and health insurance premium, and demanded their immediate removal. Modi government seems to be unwilling to concede to the demand, […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The verdict of the 7-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India allowing sub-quotas within the overall quota for Scheduled Castes (SCs) has a potential to twist the Indian politics in a new direction, since it paves the way for a new structured reservation policy for the country, not only […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rahul Gandhi’s speech in the Lok Sabha on the Union Budget 2024-25 on July 29, was not only an expose of the lotus trap, but also a voice given to the entrapped, the muted, and the people living constantly under fear. Avoiding jargons and the technical terms, he tried to explain […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Known for having transformed the Delhi education scenario in government schools from poor to very good, even better in performance than private schools in the National Capital Territory, in just a decade, AAP government is now on the way to transform Punjab school education to provide high quality education for all […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “Indian economy needs to generate average of nearly 78.5 lakh jobs annually until 2030 in the non-farm sector to cater to the rising workforce,” said the Economic Survey 2023-24 tabled in the Parliament of India on July 22. Next day on July 23, the Union Budget 2024-25, announced several schemes for […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak G20 has made a history to agree on working together to ensure ultra-rich are taxed effectively, even after the United States dismissed the need for an international accord on the matter for now. The agreement was reached on July 25 at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Rio de Janeiro. […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Taking lessons from the outcome of Lok Sabha Election 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government has made a clever move for the next generation of economic reforms in the Union Budget 2024-25, which forms the core of the budget though mentioned as the last of the nine priority areas it […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Economic Survey 2023-24 does present a rosy picture of India’s growth story and recognizes the short-term prospect as good, but does not fail to flag several areas of concern that require clear forward-look vision for better prospect in the long term. It underscored the pressing needs for comprehensive reform in agriculture. […]
