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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…

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#TheIndiaFix | Violence over identity and religion is something Indians are (unfortunately) used to. But on Tuesday, the country saw something rarer: riots over jobs.

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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.

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#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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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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Feb 2
The Central government controls who gets the permission required to operate a television channel & even what kind of content it can broadcast.

How the Centre exercises stringent control over Indian television news channels,@UmangPod explains

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Earlier this week, the government refused to renew the licence of Malayalam new channel, #MediaOne

The ban put the spotlight on the Union government’s ability to control what gets aired on television

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This isn’t the first time #MediaOne has run into trouble with the ruling dispensation.

In 2020, the news channel, along with Asianet News, was banned for 48 hours for its coverage of the riots in Delhi. @UmangPod writes

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In recent years, the NCPCR has devoted considerable attention to poorly substantiated complaints against minority communities.

This week in #CommonGround, @AarefaJohari and @iyersaishwarya investigate the Hindutva hijack of India's child rights body. scroll.in/article/101642…
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#CommonGround | Under the NCPCR's current chairman, Priyank Kanoongo, the commission has expended considerable resources on pursuing complaints that target minority communities, in many cases for alleged forcible conversion. scroll.in/article/1016421
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Feb 1
Nirmala Sitharaman presents #Budget2022 in Parliament, #Sensex jumps over 800 points

Catch all the #BudgetSession2022 live updates.👇

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The Budget seeks to lay a blueprint for the next 25 years, says the finance minister.

“We are confident of withstanding challenges amid the coronavirus pandemic,” says #NirmalaSitharaman.

Catch all the #Budget2022 live updates.👇

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Nirmala Sitharaman says the government strives to provide necessary ecosystem for middle class.

“This Budget hopes to lay the foundation for Amrit Kal from India at 75 to India at 100,” she adds.

Catch all the #Budget2022 live updates.👇

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Feb 1
In charts: What the data shows about India’s alarming unemployment situation

Last week, the country witnessed its ‘first large-scale’ riots over jobs in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
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By Ankur Bhardwaj, @CedaAshoka

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Data shows that over the last few years employment opportunities for India’s youth have especially worsened.

In 2019, it was reported that India’s unemployment rate in 2017-’18 was the worst in over four decades, according to NSSO surveys.

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In May 2021, CEDA-CMIE Bulletin examined the long-term sector-wise employment in India

Using the CMIE’s time-series data of sector-wise employment, we showed that employment in India’s manufacturing sector had nearly halved between 2016-’17 & 2020-’21

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Modi govt used law stayed by courts to seek details from digital media outfits scroll.in/article/101624…

This isn’t the only instance of the govt, and even the courts, using a law that has been struck down. The most glaring example is Section 66A of the IT Act 2000

By @UmangPod
Modi government used law stayed by courts to seek details from digital media outfits

In the past as well, there have been instances of the government, and ironically even the courts, relying on a law that has been struck down, @UmangPod reports.

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Retired Supreme Court judge Rohinton Nariman authored a judgment in 2015, ruling that Section 66A of the IT Act was unconstitutional.

Section 66A outlawed some forms of offensive speech, @UmangPod reports. ✍️

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#Budget 2022 | What are #NirmalaSitharaman’s options amid polls, Covid uncertainty and price rise?

The government is expected to increase spending in infrastructure and health sectors, but tax relief for the middle class doesn’t seem to be on cards.

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#Budget2022 | With as many as five states set to go to polls within days of the Union Budget, Finance Minister Sitharaman might have an eye on providing relief to the salaried class.

What might the finance minister announce in the #Budget today? ⬇️
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#Budget2022 | The government is likely to announce incentives for opting for the new tax regime that had been announced two years ago, but did not find too many takers, according to the Mint. scroll.in/latest/1016274/

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