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Ashok Kumar Lahiri. The north-eastern region of India has low per capita income despite a favourable land–man ratio, rich resource endowment, and a high potential for growth and development. The challenges are connectivity, location in a troubled neighbourhood, and fractionalisation and polarisation of its population.
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Untouchability in India: A Reading List
Mar 15, 2021 — The caste system in India involves “rank and gradation,” Sukhadeo Thorat explains, which make “the rights and privileges of higher castes, become the disabilities of the lower castes, particularly the untouchables.”. According to Amit Thorat and Omkar Joshi, being India’s “quintessential social and individual identifier,” caste receives a …
Article 19: Mapping the Free Speech Debate in India
Many laws that restrict free speech such as the laws punishing sedition, hate speech or defamation, derive their legitimacy from Article 19 (2). Inspection of movies, books, paintings, etc, is also possible by way of this clause. Scholars note that censorship in India was, and still is, historically rooted in the discourse of protecting Indian ...
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The findings reveal that in 2022–23, women spent an average of 4.6 hours on domestic chores, which is more than double the 2.2 hours spent by men. Using replacement cost and gross opportunity cost approaches, the estimated value of unpaid household work in India ranged from 26% to 36% of gross domestic product in 2022–23.
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Reservations in India: A Resource Kit
Deprivation is only one measure of caste discrimination in India. Reservations for the SCs and STs were put in place in the Indian constitution, immediately after independence, as a means to recognise the historical injustice meted out to these groups and to implement provisions by which groups would have better access to resources and opportunities that …
Protection of Workers’ Wages in India: An Analysis of the Labour …
Dec 12, 2019 — The landmark Labour Code on Wages Act (henceforth referred to as the Wage Code), enacted in August 2019, has been celebrated for codifying India’s four wage related laws, namely the Minimum Wages Act, 1948; the Payment of Wages Act, 1936; the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976; and the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.