Customers stand socially distanced as they queue to enter Amazon’s new Amazon Fresh store in Ealing, west London. Amazon, last week, opened the first of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores in Europe, where customers will be able to buy goods without the need to queue at a checkout. Customers will scan a QR code on their way into the store, with cameras and technology identifying the items shoppers take from the shelves. AFP
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Watch: Beyond the Hype, the Serious Concerns and Real Truth About the Budget
In conversation with Jayati Ghosh, Indira Rajaraman, Rathin Roy, Jehangir Aziz and Naushad Forbes.
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Five of Indiaâs top economists, bankers and industrialists â Jayati Ghosh, Indira Rajaraman, Rathin Roy, Jehangir Aziz and Naushad Forbes â discussed important issues, concerns and problems related to 2021 Union Budget that earlier have not got the attention they deserve, but now need to be focused upon. As a result, the initial impression of the Budget could alter for many.
This is an invaluable discussion that will help understand the Budget better and, more importantly, fully. It strips away the initial hype and zeroes in on the actual content, as well as a lot of the detail that was not in the budget speech but had to be teased out of the budget papers or discovered between the lines of what was either not openly said or only spoken sotto voce.
Updated: February 01, 2021 7:19 am IST
The Economic Survey, which reads like a political defence of the Modi Government, has little hope to offer the crores of workers and marginal farmers reeling under the impact of the pandemic. Astonishingly, it actually describes as humane the government s handling of the pandemic.
The life-threatening experiences of crores of migrant workers, hundreds of whom did lose their lives, stranded without any help because of the arbitrary manner of the imposition of the lockdown within barely a day of its announcement, is airbrushed out of the Survey. This illustrates why the credibility gap between what the government claims and what the reality is will not be reduced by the survey.