To promote private investment and disinvestment, the government in 2020 passed three labour codes—Industrial Relations Code, 2020, Code on Social Security Bill, 2020, and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020—making it easier for employers to fire workers. Haima Deshpande brings to light how with trade unions decimated completely, the workers are bearing the brunt.
The government is like the millstone that hurts PSUs. Its demand for dividends is unrelenting and the pressure on PSUs to go beyond their primary task to serve the fanciful projects of the government increases by the day. Diversification and consolidation based on their business logic are denied. Interference has reached a truly dysfunctional level that threatens to undermine the organisations of even worthy PSUs like NTPC and ISRO, says Sebastian Morris.
There is widespread disenchantment with and disdain for government schools not only among affluent or middle-class people but also among poorer people, who feel an English-medium education would help their children’s career prospects. But English-medium schools fail to provide quality education.
Mining of bauxite and other minerals is bringing untimely death, illness, displacement and unemployment to the tribals of Jharkhand.
Healthcare Services: Peerzada Muzamil on how PPP model is unfavourable for the underprivileged citizens, who are just a bill away from falling into poverty, especially if the ‘private’ is overpowering the ‘public’
With the state withdrawing from social sector responsibilities, privatisation of public sector and higher education—in both conventional and professional segments—has drastically curtailed the socio-economic mobility of Dalits and tribals
Reminiscing on his personal encounters with the ‘son of the soil’, Faisal Fareed pays a rich tribute to Socialist leader Mulayam Singh Yadav popularly known as Netaji
Abhik Bhattacharya hits the road to the Rs 856-crore Mahakaleshwar Temple corridor development project in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, lined by larger-than-life cutouts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi viewed as an iconic Shaivite
India can save $23 billion by promoting among its citizens a simple habit of washing hands with soap, says Yasumasa Kimura
The major thrust to privatisation arrived in the era of neoliberalism in the 1980s, and soon a policy argument emerged that saw privatisation a necessary step to strengthen the economy. It was perhaps a political tool to entrench capital into various economies and make their return to government regulation difficult.
The government is like the millstone that hurts PSUs. Its demand for dividends is unrelenting and the pressure on PSUs to go beyond their primary task to serve the fanciful projects of the government increases by the day. Diversification and consolidation based on their business logic are denied. Interference has reached a truly dysfunctional level that threatens to undermine the organisations of even worthy PSUs like NTPC and ISRO, says Sebastian Morris.
There is widespread disenchantment with and disdain for government schools not only among affluent or middle-class people but also among poorer people, who feel an English-medium education would help their children’s career prospects. But English-medium schools fail to provide quality education.
Mining of bauxite and other minerals is bringing untimely death, illness, displacement and unemployment to the tribals of Jharkhand.
Healthcare Services: Peerzada Muzamil on how PPP model is unfavourable for the underprivileged citizens, who are just a bill away from falling into poverty, especially if the ‘private’ is overpowering the ‘public’
With the state withdrawing from social sector responsibilities, privatisation of public sector and higher education—in both conventional and professional segments—has drastically curtailed the socio-economic mobility of Dalits and tribals
Reminiscing on his personal encounters with the ‘son of the soil’, Faisal Fareed pays a rich tribute to Socialist leader Mulayam Singh Yadav popularly known as Netaji
Abhik Bhattacharya hits the road to the Rs 856-crore Mahakaleshwar Temple corridor development project in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, lined by larger-than-life cutouts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi viewed as an iconic Shaivite
India can save $23 billion by promoting among its citizens a simple habit of washing hands with soap, says Yasumasa Kimura
The major thrust to privatisation arrived in the era of neoliberalism in the 1980s, and soon a policy argument emerged that saw privatisation a necessary step to strengthen the economy. It was perhaps a political tool to entrench capital into various economies and make their return to government regulation difficult.
The dictum that ‘government should not be in business’ is fine, but while giving a push to privatisation the government should also fulfill its primary responsibility toward citizens: ensure its citizens are provided an environment that enables them to achieve their full potential. In his enlightening piece on the phenomenon, Partha Mukhopadhyay tells us why it is necessary.
Equal opportunities for women need to be supported by a number of policy measures, including creation of jobs, better infrastructure, safety and security and access to childcare facilities. The aggressive push for privatisation without an integrated policy for women’s employment is self-defeating.
With the recruitment process beset with inordinate delays, leaked papers and questionable results, fears of the Railways, the largest employer after the Central government, going under the hammer only add to anxieties among young aspirants.
Haima Deshpande on how both factions of Shiv Sena are locked in a battle for supremacy to much chagrin of workers who see behind the split BJP’s role to finish the party founded by Balasaheb Thackeray
Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha evocatively captures eight gutsy trans women models walking their catwalk on the ramp in the first ever trans fashion show held in Delhi
Satish Padmanabhan, Managing Editor of Outlook, reminisces about Delhi’s iconic Nirula’s on the passing away of its founder Deepak Nirula.
