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WEBThe share of Indian Railways in domestic freight transport has been declining over time, from 85% in 1951 to less than 30% in 2022. However, Indian Railways has set loading targets of 3,000 million tonnes by 2027 and 3,600 MT by 2030–31, to achieve 45% of freight share by 2030–31. This article analyses the operational characteristics of ...
Untouchability in India: A Reading List
WEBMar 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 lot of scholarship focusing on its ...
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WEBVarun Agarwal, Devashish Deshpande, Josh Felman, Theerdha Sara Reji, Arvind Subramanian. This article examines in detail seven years of goods and services tax revenue performance. Our main findings are as follows. First, overall revenues have only now converged to pre-GST levels. Second, the union forewent up …
Unveiling the World of the Nomadic Tribes and Denotified Tribes: …
WEB31 August 2021 marks the 69th year of the repeal of the Criminal Tribes Act, 1871. This act was the most draconian law passed by the British colonial state, under which millions of nomadic and semi-nomadic communities were declared criminals and put under continuous surveillance, making their lives impossible. 31 August is celebrated as Vimukta Jatis day in India by the de-notified tribal ...
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Human Development Index 2021–22 and India
WEBThe Human Development Report 202122, brought out by the United Nations Development Programme, shows that Indias global rankings have gone down from 130 in 2020 to 132 in 2021. This is not surprising as the growth in Indias Human Development Index (HDI) values have decelerated faster than the global values during the pandemic.
Water and Agricultural Transformation in India
WEBJul 17, 2021 · An argument for twin propositions is presented in this two-part paper: (i) that solving India’s water problem requires a paradigm shift in agriculture (Part I), and (ii) that the crisis in Indian agriculture cannot be resolved without a paradigm shift in water management and governance (Part II). If farming takes up 90% of India’s water and just three water-intensive crops continue to use ...