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A Month In, VB-G RAM G’s Numbers Raise Hard Questions

A month into VB-G RAM G, the government’s own dashboard undercuts its press releases: 7.67 crore person-days g...

The Supreme Court Is Not the Supreme Wisdom

“The Supreme Court is not the supreme wisdom” is not merely an emotional reaction; it is a political consciousness that ...

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Viksit Bharat and the Unmaking of MGNREGA

The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Gramin Bill 2025 is being projected as a bold reform th...

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The Shaping of a Welfare Regime

Excerpt from Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy By Louise Tillin, published in 202...

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The Ostrich Budget: An Analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26

A reading of the budget and the Economic Survey is a crucial exercise to understand the direction that the economy is ta...

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Charts: The Modi Govt Has Reduced Spending For Almost All Major Social Sector Heads

Children queue for their midday meal in schools. Photo: ILO/Flickr (ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL-NODERIVS 2.0 GENERIC) Thes...

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100 Days agitation by 100 workers per day demanding 100 days’ work without hitches

Random Reflections 15 crore workers who have registered under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme have b...

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Developing Rural Economy through Unionisation- A Classic Model

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 was started in 2005 by the United Progressive Alliance- a co...

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Political motive? NREGA’s payment move creating caste divide where ‘none existed’

The Modi government’s accounting jugglery and gaslighting are legendary. Yet, here is one more instance, which is a wor...

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Why caste-based MGNREGS payment is sending shock waves across India

In addition to creating a caste divide where none existed, along with distrust and distress among the OBC and General ca...

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September 16, 2026

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A Month In, VB-G RAM G’s Numbers Raise Hard Questions

A month into VB-G RAM G, the government’s own dashboard undercuts its press releases: 7.67 crore person-days generated in July, against 15.33 crore under MGNREGS the previous year, a 49.94% collapse, the lowest July figure in five years. This isn’t teething trouble; it’s the pr...

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September 16, 2026

Devidas Tuljapurakar

The Supreme Court Is Not the Supreme Wisdom

“The Supreme Court is not the supreme wisdom” is not merely an emotional reaction; it is a political consciousness that points to the class limitations of power structures. The statement made by the Chief Justice of India during the hearing of the Public Interest Litigation Penn Thozhilalargal Sanga...

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January 7, 2026

Nancy Pathak

Viksit Bharat and the Unmaking of MGNREGA

The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Gramin Bill 2025 is being projected as a bold reform that modernises rural employment and aligns it with the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047. In reality, it represents the final step in a long process of dismantling one of the most import...

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November 13, 2025

Louise Tillin

The Shaping of a Welfare Regime

Excerpt from Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy By Louise Tillin, published in 2025 by Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom. The struggles of workers, employers, and the state to construct welfare regimes that reduce the dependency of workers on the extrem...

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September 24, 2026

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The Ostrich Budget: An Analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26

A reading of the budget and the Economic Survey is a crucial exercise to understand the direction that the economy is taking. It gives a sense of how responsive is a government to the actual challenges in the economy and the real needs of the people. The current budget as such was crucial as it come...

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July 25, 2024

Pranay Raj

Charts: The Modi Govt Has Reduced Spending For Almost All Major Social Sector Heads

Children queue for their midday meal in schools. Photo: ILO/Flickr (ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL-NODERIVS 2.0 GENERIC) These are all major schemes and essential programmes that many marginalised communities rely on. Despite the headline-grabbing figures of expenditure in this year’s Union budget, a clo...

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February 28, 2023

Thomas Franco

100 Days agitation by 100 workers per day demanding 100 days’ work without hitches

Random Reflections 15 crore workers who have registered under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme have been under difficulties ever since the BJP Govt came to power in 2014. According to outlook magazine nine months after taking over as the Prime Minister, Mr. Modi said in Parliament...

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August 9, 2022

Thomas Franco

Developing Rural Economy through Unionisation- A Classic Model

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 was started in 2005 by the United Progressive Alliance- a coalition Govt led by the Congress Party in which the Left played an important role. Under this scheme, 15.31 Cr workers are enrolled and Rs.6.52 crore assets have been created to da...

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April 5, 2022

Prasanna Mohanty

Political motive? NREGA’s payment move creating caste divide where ‘none existed’

The Modi government’s accounting jugglery and gaslighting are legendary. Yet, here is one more instance, which is a work-in-progress, and threatens to further damage the society and the economy. We are talking about the caste-based payment system in the Centrally sponsored rural job guarantee schem...

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March 31, 2022

Prasanna Mohanty

Why caste-based MGNREGS payment is sending shock waves across India

In addition to creating a caste divide where none existed, along with distrust and distress among the OBC and General category workers, the Central government’s undisclosed motive behind the move is very suspect. The Modi government’s accounting jugglery and gaslighting are legendary. Yet, here is o...

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A Month In, VB-G RAM G’s Numbers Raise Hard Questions

The Supreme Court Is Not the Supreme Wisdom

Viksit Bharat and the Unmaking of MGNREGA

The Shaping of a Welfare Regime

The Ostrich Budget: An Analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26

Charts: The Modi Govt Has Reduced Spending For Almost All Major Social Sector Heads

100 Days agitation by 100 workers per day demanding 100 days’ work without hitches

Developing Rural Economy through Unionisation- A Classic Model

Political motive? NREGA’s payment move creating caste divide where ‘none existed’

Why caste-based MGNREGS payment is sending shock waves across India

A Month In, VB-G RAM G’s Numbers Raise Hard Questions

The Supreme Court Is Not the Supreme Wisdom

Viksit Bharat and the Unmaking of MGNREGA

The Shaping of a Welfare Regime

The Ostrich Budget: An Analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26

Charts: The Modi Govt Has Reduced Spending For Almost All Major Social Sector Heads

100 Days agitation by 100 workers per day demanding 100 days’ work without hitches

Developing Rural Economy through Unionisation- A Classic Model

Political motive? NREGA’s payment move creating caste divide where ‘none existed’

Why caste-based MGNREGS payment is sending shock waves across India