Working class suffered the worst during Modi regime: Congress
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Working class suffered the worst during Modi regime: Congress

The Hindu  

Spelling out details of its promise to ensure shramik nyay or justice for labour, the Congress on Tuesday said it would include the right to health, urban employment guarantee, increase in wages for MGNREGA workers up to ₹400 and reviving labour laws to protect the working class interest in its manifesto. Addressing a press conference at the All India Congress Committee headquarters, senior party leader and former MP Sandeep Dikshit said the working class had suffered the worst during the last 10 years of the Modi regime and deserved special attention. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, in a post on X, said the growth rate of wages between 2014-15 and 2021-22 was less than one per cent per year during the tenure of the Modi government. Drawing comparisons with the Congress-led UPA-2 between 2009 and 2014, the Congress chief said the real agricultural and non-agricultural rural wages grew at the rate of 8.6% and 6.9% per year respectively.

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Modi government slashes income tax for middle classes in India budget
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Modi government slashes income tax for middle classes in India budget

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s …

PM Modi govt created 17.19 crore jobs in 10 years compared to UPA’s 2.9 crore: Mansukh Mandaviya
2 months, 1 week ago

PM Modi govt created 17.19 crore jobs in 10 years compared to UPA’s 2.9 crore: Mansukh Mandaviya

Live Mint  

The employment in the country has increased by 36 per cent to 64.33 crore in 2023-24 from 47.15 crore in 2014-15, showing improvement in job creation during NDA period, PTI quoted Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya as saying on Thursday. Comparing the data with Congress-led regime between 2004-2014, the minister while speaking to the media said that the employment in …

Economic potential eroding rapidly while PM Modi generates hype: Congress
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Economic potential eroding rapidly while PM Modi generates hype: Congress

New Indian Express  

The Congress leader pointed out that the report uses Periodic Labour Force Survey data to show that overall real wage growth at the national level has been flat at 0.01% over the last five years. Citing Labour Bureau's Wage Rate Index, he said real wages for the labourers stagnated between 2014-2023 and in fact declined between 2019-2024. Ramesh further cited …

Average Indian can buy less than they could 10 years ago: Congress
4 months ago

Average Indian can buy less than they could 10 years ago: Congress

The Hindu  

The Congress on Sunday claimed that the average Indian can buy less today than they could ten years ago, saying that the cause for the slowdown in India’s consumption is the result of sustained income stagnation. Our statement on this unfortunate reality and its consequences for India's consumption story and long-term economic potential pic.twitter.com/qGEAbPSFbg — Jairam Ramesh November 10, 2024 …

Congress: Decline in Household Income Ignored
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Congress: Decline in Household Income Ignored

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday criticised the government for ignoring what it called the “most fundamental challenge” facing the Indian economy: the decline in real household incomes. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh pointed to a new report by a prominent brokerage firm, which he said confirms the persistent decline in real wages — a trend the government has consistently …

Congress slams govt. over ‘unprecedented decline’ in real wages, calls it the ‘proverbial ostrich’
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Congress slams govt. over ‘unprecedented decline’ in real wages, calls it the ‘proverbial ostrich’

The Hindu  

The Congress on Sunday claimed that a combination of slow wage growth and "back-breaking" inflation has caused an unprecedented decline in real wages and said that, like the "proverbial ostrich", the government continues to remain blind to the most fundamental challenge faced by the Indian economy. "A combination of slow wage growth and back-breaking inflation has caused an unprecedented decline …

Present state of MNREGA is a living monument of Modi’s betrayal of rural India: Kharge
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Present state of MNREGA is a living monument of Modi’s betrayal of rural India: Kharge

The Hindu  

Marking the enactment day of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Congress president Mallikarjkun Kharge criticised the Centre for its handling of the flagship programme alleging that the present state of the scheme is “a living monument of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s betrayal” of rural India. The Economic Survey, Mr. Kharge said, has already laid the groundwork to justify …

PM Modi should pay attention to basic economic issues of country, says Mallikarjun Kharge
8 months ago

PM Modi should pay attention to basic economic issues of country, says Mallikarjun Kharge

The Hindu  

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on July 12 said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi "used PR" to keep the government away from basic issues but people were now demanding accountability after the June Lok Sabha poll results. In a post in Hindi on X, the Congress president said, "Narendra Modi ji, Your government has ruined the lives of crores of people …

LS polls: Rural hardship hurts BJP
9 months, 1 week ago

LS polls: Rural hardship hurts BJP

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Faced with the police’s tear gas and rubber bullets, farmers from Punjab have been protesting outside Delhi since February, a reprisal of the uprisings of 2020 and 2021, albeit on a smaller scale. Farmers protesting against new farm laws While the Bharatiya Janata Party has dominated large swathes of India’s rural heartland in the last 10 years, discontent …

Modi touts India’s roaring economy as he seeks reelection, but many feel left behind
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Modi touts India’s roaring economy as he seeks reelection, but many feel left behind

Associated Press  

SAMASTIPUR, India — Narendra Modi swept to power a decade ago on promises to transform India’s economy, and it would be hard to argue he hasn’t made strides. While campaigning this spring — the six-week-long election concludes Saturday — Modi has vowed to make India’s economy the world’s third-largest, trailing only those of the U.S. and China. Even as India’s …

Rise in demand for MGNREGS a ‘living monument’ of govt. failure, says Jairam Ramesh
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Rise in demand for MGNREGS a ‘living monument’ of govt. failure, says Jairam Ramesh

The Hindu  

Reacting to the latest statistics of the flagship rural employment guarantee scheme showing that demand for work is more than the pre-pandemic level and on a steady rise, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said it is a “living monument” to the Narendra Modi government’s many failures. In a detailed statement here, Mr. Ramesh pointed out that the Mahatma Gandhi National …

Government choices and policies have taken India's economy to new height: PM Modi
1 year, 3 months ago

Government choices and policies have taken India's economy to new height: PM Modi

Firstpost  

Modi said that their biggest priority should be people’s ease of living, and took a swipe at past governments saying they ignored the equality envisaged by B R Ambedkar, the key figure behind the Constitution, among all citizens Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said his government’s policies and decisions have taken the economy to a new height, creating immense …

PM Modi says 13.5 crore Indians rose above poverty line in last 5 years
1 year, 6 months ago

PM Modi says 13.5 crore Indians rose above poverty line in last 5 years

Live Mint  

New Delhi: A staggering 13.50 crore Indians have risen above the poverty line in the past five years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday quoting a recent NITI Aayog report. Speaking at the Madhya Pradesh Rozgar Mela, the prime minister said, “When decisions are made with positive thinking, right intention, and full integrity, the whole environment gets filled with …

Beneath his hardline image, a ‘soft’ Narendra Modi is at work
2 years, 5 months ago

Beneath his hardline image, a ‘soft’ Narendra Modi is at work

Firstpost  

His opponents’ biggest grouse is that Modi is the worst thing that has happened to minorities in India. A month before that, the Modi government announced scholarships to five crore students over five years, 50 per cent of the endowments meant for girls. In the 2022-2023 Budget, Rs 8,451.92 crore has been allocated for the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, which …

Aakar Patel: ‘Modi shrank India’s workforce by a fifth’
3 years, 2 months ago

Aakar Patel: ‘Modi shrank India’s workforce by a fifth’

The Hindu  

He is known to be an informed critic of the Narendra Modi government. Now, he is back with another book, Price of the Modi Years, dissecting the human and economic price India is going to pay for the seven-odd years spent under the BJP government since 2014. Modi shrank India’s workforce by a fifth, an act of staggering incompetence for …

India's working classes bear the brunt of the Narendra Modi government's economic policies
3 years, 4 months ago

India's working classes bear the brunt of the Narendra Modi government's economic policies

The Hindu  

There seems to be no let-up in the bad news emerging from India’s real economy. India’s second wealthiest person, Gautam Adani, has seen his wealth soar by an astronomical 500 per cent in this period. America’s Dow Jones has given 28 per cent returns in the same period, and the wealth of billionaires such as Elon Musk has seen a …

Aakar Patel | Poverty on the rise, jobs begin to vanish: Will India explode?
3 years, 5 months ago

Aakar Patel | Poverty on the rise, jobs begin to vanish: Will India explode?

Deccan Chronicle  

A few months after taking office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in the Lok Sabha that MNREGA would be continued only because it would show how poorly the Manmohan Singh government had performed. MNREGA guarantees 100 days of employment in the year at Rs 200 per day to each registered household, meaning that the family would receive Rs 20,000 for …

Unemployment claims part of Congress-driven agenda against us: PM Modi
5 years, 10 months ago

Unemployment claims part of Congress-driven agenda against us: PM Modi

India Today  

The allegations of rising unemployment in India are nothing but part of an agenda driven by the Congress and the media is furthering this agenda, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. When asked about a weekly poll conducted by the India Today Group that revealed that employment is the biggest concern for Indians, PM Modi said reports of Nasscom …

Modi government created rural distress: Congress
5 years, 11 months ago

Modi government created rural distress: Congress

The Quint  

New Delhi, March 29 The Congress on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of quietly squeezing funds meant for the MGNREGA scheme, and said pro-rich and anti-poor policies of his government created "rampant and unimaginable rural distress" in the past five years. Congress Spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi said even as Modi and his ministers mocked the minimum income guarantee scheme "Nyay" …

Over one crore jobs lost in India in 2018, claims Congress referring to think-tank report
6 years, 2 months ago

Over one crore jobs lost in India in 2018, claims Congress referring to think-tank report

India TV News  

The Congress on Sunday targeted the BJP government at the Centre over "growing employment" in India and cited a think-tank report to claim that over one crore jobs were lost last year. Referring to a report by the think-tank, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari alleged that the BJP-led NDA government failed to fulfil its promise …

Unemployment Biggest Issue For Voters, But Can It Harm PM Modi?
6 years, 2 months ago

Unemployment Biggest Issue For Voters, But Can It Harm PM Modi?

The Quint  

While agrarian distress has led to farmers' movements in different parts of the country such as Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, there hasn't been such large-scale mobilisation purely on the issue of jobs. Therefore some would say that in the absence of mobilisation against the Modi government, there is a possibility that the political impact of unemployment may be restricted. …

Modi government working to double farmers’ income: Union MoS
6 years, 10 months ago

Modi government working to double farmers’ income: Union MoS

Hindustan Times  

Union minister of state for agriculture Krishna Raj has said the Narendra Modi government is working in a planned manner to double farmers’ income by 2022. Talking to journalists after holding a meeting with officials here on Tuesday, she said the government was making quality seeds and fertilisers available to farmers as per the requirement of the soil. She said …

3 years of BJP government: Surveys suggest Narendra Modi is still people's PM but dissatisfaction on the rise
7 years, 9 months ago

3 years of BJP government: Surveys suggest Narendra Modi is still people's PM but dissatisfaction on the rise

Firstpost  

If Modi hopes to cinch another term in power at all, it is important that it not only enters the fray with the proof of the promises fulfilled but sustain a positive public perception. Price rise On the question of rising inflation in prices day-to-day commodities, almost 66 percent people who took the LocalCirles poll felt that the government’s efforts …

One year on, Modi govt bogged down by bureaucracy and politics, says US think-tank
9 years, 7 months ago

One year on, Modi govt bogged down by bureaucracy and politics, says US think-tank

Firstpost  

Observing that the Modi government has been bogged down by bureaucracy and politics, a top US think-tank has said “caution” and not enthusiasm is evident in every arena. Washington: Observing that the Modi government which came to power last year on a plank of change has been bogged down by bureaucracy and politics, a top US think-tank has said “caution” …

Modi govt disappointing bad days for people Mayawati-IndiaTV News – India TV
9 years, 9 months ago

Modi govt disappointing bad days for people Mayawati-IndiaTV News – India TV

India TV News  

Lucknow: Charging Narendra Modi government with following UPA's footsteps, BSP surpemo Mayawati today said one year of NDA rule was "disappointing" as people experienced "bad days". "With its faulty policies and acts, the Modi government's one year is disappointing as it has shown only bad days to people. Stating that BJP MPs were so "arrogant" due to the party's majority, …

India Inc's job creation hit 10-quarter high in Apr-Jun; but here's why Modi should worry
10 years, 4 months ago

India Inc's job creation hit 10-quarter high in Apr-Jun; but here's why Modi should worry

Firstpost  

For Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who came to power promising jobs, there is a tall task ahead First the good news: Indian companies created more jobs in April-June on a sequential basis. As Dhananjay Sinha and Nikhil Gupta of brokerage firm Emkay note in a recent research report, the rebound in employment generation in the first quarter of this financial …

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