Scope for manual earth work like digging of canals is limited in cities. An urban MGNREGA might not provide employment and create assets as it’s expected to.
The internet infrastructure, if put in place, would continue to provide the best in education experience to India's hinterlands even in post-Covid era.
The Covid crisis must help change the anti-urban mindset that investment in urban infrastructure and services improvement will make cities more ‘attractive’ for rural migrants.
Indian cities have shown resilience in overcoming challenges. Yet, resilience has not always resulted in improving urban governance and improving lives of urban poor.
The optimism of rural residents with regard to panchayats is striking compared to the largely despondent accounts of slum residents about urban local bodies.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
The article does not state who came up with this great idea of Urban MGNREGA. If it is the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s idea, I would say that he is the worst populist politician after UPA. Indira Gandhi spoke lot of populism and spoke of Garibi Hatao. She did not spend anything to follow as she had no clue about eradication of poverty. UPA found a way of drainign the treasury by distributing largess through MGNREGA. Now, Modi has to do better than UPA. I am sorry to note that the originality of thinking which prevailed in Modi 1.0 has been lost. Now, BJP is no different from Congress. Little wonder that India has no money for defence upgradation while the enemy is standing at the gate.
Ila ma’am has argued well. However, it would be great to know what she’d suggest to address the collapse of incomes of urban poor. In her earlier videos ma’am has suggested that getting people out to work and spend safely is the best stimulus there is. Seems like vaccine is atleast 6 months away, what do we do?
The article does not state who came up with this great idea of Urban MGNREGA. If it is the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s idea, I would say that he is the worst populist politician after UPA. Indira Gandhi spoke lot of populism and spoke of Garibi Hatao. She did not spend anything to follow as she had no clue about eradication of poverty. UPA found a way of drainign the treasury by distributing largess through MGNREGA. Now, Modi has to do better than UPA. I am sorry to note that the originality of thinking which prevailed in Modi 1.0 has been lost. Now, BJP is no different from Congress. Little wonder that India has no money for defence upgradation while the enemy is standing at the gate.
Ila ma’am has argued well. However, it would be great to know what she’d suggest to address the collapse of incomes of urban poor. In her earlier videos ma’am has suggested that getting people out to work and spend safely is the best stimulus there is. Seems like vaccine is atleast 6 months away, what do we do?