Rural economy was meant to push India in a difficult year, but a number of factors are making that difficult. ThePrint travels across the country to find these out.
Now is a good time to integrate the most crucial feature missing in the Indian micro-finance system — running it as a social business, writes Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.
Rajnish Kumar says with economy slowing down, credit growth will decelerate, and adds that only 15-20% of SBI’s borrowers have availed of RBI’s loan moratorium.
Rural unemployment has shot up above 20% in past 30 days & about 400 million workers in the informal economy are at risk of falling deeper into poverty.
The Nielsen report found that the economic slowdown is worse in northern India, which has a higher dependency on the rural segment and has seen a surge in unemployment.
The Territorial Army, a part-time military organisation for Indians who may have other jobs, is essentially a volunteer force that can be quickly mobilised in the defence of a state.
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.