Tag: Farm labourer

Season of despair

It is a measure of the economic slide that plagues rural India that there has been a remarkable surge in the demand for jobs under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Apart from the general slowdown after the trumpeting of GDP growth ~ inflation has ballooned to a five-month high ~ the shrill …

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September 14, 2017