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Jan 31, 2022 • 16 tweets • 14 min read • Read on X
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#AssemblyElections2022 | India's employment rate is so bad, it is even lower than Pakistan's. Yet paradoxically elections are being fought on identity, not jobs.scroll.in/article/101627…

#TheIndiaFix by @ShoaibDaniyal
This week on #TheIndiaFix - A newsletter on Indian politics by @ShoaibDaniyal

Job riots in UP, Bihar bring home the urgency of India’s unemployment crisis scroll.in/article/101627… Image
#TheIndiaFix | Violence over identity and religion is something Indians are (unfortunately) used to. But on Tuesday, the country saw something rarer: riots over jobs.

This week, @ShoaibDaniyal writes on the unemployment crisis in India scroll.in/article/101627… Image
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#TheIndiaFix | An incredible 1.25 crore people applied for the 35,000 openings [for the non-technical jobs in railways].

Even if everything had gone fine, the number of disappointed candidates would be bigger than the entire population of Belgium indiafix.scrollstack.com/post/15912/
#TheIndiaFix by @ShoaibDaniyal | The lack of employment opportunities is a full-blown crisis in India. scroll.in/article/101627…

According to data from the World Bank, only 43% of India’s working-age population has a job.
#TheIndiaFix | India’s unemployment crisis

The situation seems so hopeless that large numbers of Indians are not even bothering to look for jobs. Even the energetic young are discouraged, writes @ShoaibDaniyal scroll.in/article/101627… Image
#TheIndiaFix | India has failed to develop industries that can provide mass employment.

Worse, the economic slowdown has undermined whatever little manufacturing employment India had. scroll.in/article/101627… Image
Jobs might be a crisis in India but it is religion that still dominates Indian politics.

These job riots are an urgent wake-up sign for India’s politicians.

#TheIndiaFix by @ShoaibDaniyal scroll.in/article/101627… Image
#TheIndiaFix | Incredibly, so low is the electoral play for jobs that Uttar Pradesh did not think twice about hurting its large leather industry in the pursuit of the Hindutva preference for “cow protection”.
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#TheIndiaFix: The International Monetary Fund thinks India will be the world’s fastest economy in 2022.

However, former IMFer Josh Felman sounds a note of caution on his blog. By @ShoaibDaniyal ✍️

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#TheIndiaFix: Students across Bihar & UP were angry with the results of a railways exam meant to recruit for jobs in what is called the “non-technical popular category”.

Students also complained that the railways had suddenly introduced a second exam.

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#TheIndiaFix: These exams were first scheduled for 2019 but had been delayed due to #Covid19 pandemic.

Since these are not technical jobs, they are open to a large number of candidates. An incredible 1.25 crore people applied for the 35,000 openings.

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#TheIndiaFix: The violence came as a shock to most Indians since unemployment is rarely discussed with any seriousness in the media or national-level politics.

By @ShoaibDaniyal ✍️

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#TheIndiaFix by @ShoaibDaniyal✍️

According to data from the World Bank, only 43% of India’s working age population has a job.

This is shockingly low. The figure in Bangladesh, for example, is 53%. Even Pakistan manages to do better at 48%.

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Economist Aravind Panagariya's dismissal of Rajasthan's #righttohealth Act as an example of “irresponsible populism” is shocking in a country where the financial burden of healthcare continues to push over 55 million people into poverty every year. scroll.in/article/1047330 Image
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#ScrollInvestigation: The Modi government greenlighted the clearance of about 3,000 acres of forest land in Chhattisgarh for the expansion of a coal mine operated by the Adani Group...
...even though a government-funded study found millions of tonnes of coal lying unextracted at the bottom of the existing mine.
Allocated by the coal ministry to Rajasthan’s state electricity company, the Parsa East and Kanta Basan mine is operated by the Adani Group, which also holds 74% stake in its profits.
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THREAD | The assault of an activist in Sikkim’s Singtam town on April 9 has once again drawn attention to the concerns over the redefinition of who counts as “Sikkimese” for tax purposes in the Finance Act, 2023. scroll.in/article/104738… Image
The act allows Indians who settled in Sikkim before 1975, when the Himalayan kingdom was merged with India, to avail of tax exemptions that ethnic Sikkimese groups have been granted.

The bill was necessitated by a Supreme Court verdict in January.
Critics allege that the law, which was passed by the Lok Sabha on March 24, is an attack on the state’s special rights and the identity of native groups. scroll.in/article/1047381

"What has happened is a very scary dilution” of Article 371, Joint Action Council member Amrit Sharma… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The Bharatiya Janata Party was on Sunday forced to replace a ceremonial banner it had erected in #Karnataka’s Mandya district to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi. scroll.in/article/104574…

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The Opposition leaders pointed out that the banner featured two purported 18th-century Vokkaliga chieftains who the saffron party claims had killed Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan.

According to the historical record, the Mysuru king was killed by the British.
This attempt by the BJP to showcase the supposed Vokkaliga chieftains Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda, is being seen as part of the organisation’s new electoral push to appeal to specific castes groups - Vokkaliga voters.
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THREAD: In early 2019, when Irshad Arif Irshad and his three friends decided to start an e-commerce business in Kashmir, they pooled their own savings instead of taking a loan.

“We did not take any bank loan because we know the risk of failure of businesses here,” Irshad said.
They opened a web portal called Kashmir Origin, a local platform that sells curated Kashmiri handicrafts, organic products and fabrics.

All four co-founders had worked for e-commerce companies in #Kashmir as well as other parts of India, and brought their expertise to the table.
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In August 2019, J-K was put under severe restrictions and a never-seen-before internet blockade.

“We had no idea about the status of our orders. We thought the business was over," Arif said.
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A group of 87 former civil servants urged President Droupadi Murmu to advise the Central government to immediately stop the Rs 72,000-crore mega project on Great Nicobar Island.

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The mega project and the proposal to increase the island’s population amounts to “a planned destruction of the Adivasi culture and lives”, said Sharad Lele, a former member of the environment ministry and tribal ministry committee on the Forest Rights Act.
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“This proposal for compensatory afforestation in Haryana in lieu of this ecological and social loss in the Islands is devoid of any logic,” said Tushar Dash, a forest rights researcher.
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