The rising minimum wage has reduced wage inequality in India over the past two decades. These gains were achieved without adverse effects on employment.
Issue of low wages was pointed out by Parliamentary panel in a report tabled in February. It demanded increase in wages to engage more workers and to bring uniformity across states.
Factory owners are asking for 60% govt-mandated hike. Meanwhile, the govt said minimum wage would rise by 56.25% to 12,500 taka ($114) a month from 1 December — first hike in 5 years.
Farmers and workers from organised and unorganised sectors gathered at the Ramlila Maidan Wednesday to demand better access to health, housing, wages and livelihood.
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh wants govt to tweak current formula for minimum wages, particularly the presumption that each wage-earner supports a family of only 3.
In the storm around Sinauli, many academics dismissed claims of chariots being found. And the public misinterpreted the chariots as a device planted by the govt to fortify Hindutva.
Naidu’s summit brings in MoUs on same scale as Jagan’s, but CM says his plans built on speed, certainty & investor trust, with escrow accounts, simplified incentives & real-time oversight.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
The need of the hour is to downsize the government bureaucracy. What Milei is doing in Argentina, DOGE is doing in USA, we need to do the same here in India.
The government with it’s bloated bureaucracy is a huge burden on the economy. There is absolutely no requirement for 53 ministries in the Union govt. Most of these ministries can be done away with and others merged together. That will rationalize personnel utilization and bring about greater efficiency and co-ordination.
The need of the hour is to downsize the government bureaucracy. What Milei is doing in Argentina, DOGE is doing in USA, we need to do the same here in India.
The government with it’s bloated bureaucracy is a huge burden on the economy. There is absolutely no requirement for 53 ministries in the Union govt. Most of these ministries can be done away with and others merged together. That will rationalize personnel utilization and bring about greater efficiency and co-ordination.