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UPDATED: May 28, 2021 19:20 IST The pandemic has severely affected children's wellbeing (Photo by Bandeep Singh/Model: Mrini Devnani) Social isolation, disrupted routines and restricted acc­ess to recreational activities have turned the worlds of children upside down. Schools across the country have remained shut ever since the global Covid pandemic struck India in March 2020, causing an unprecedented disturbance in the academic calendar. It has been 14 months of virtual classes, Zoom play dates and staying indoors. That it is having a profound impact on children’s health and psychosocial ...

Though the Jagan government introduced many welfare schemes, the allocation to the education sector sees yet another decrease in percentage terms.

At any given point in time, close to 102 million people are ill over a 15 day period throughout the country

This paper uses National Sample Survey data to examine the wage gap between higher castes and the scheduled castes/tribes in the regular salaried urban labour market. The main conclusions we draw are (a) discrimination causes 15 per cent lower wages for SC/STs as compared to equally qualified others; (b) SC/ST workers are discriminated against both in the public and private sectors, but the discrimination effect is much larger in the private sector; (c) discrimination accounts for a large part of the gross earnings difference between the two social groups in the regular salaried urban labour ...

Decoding inequality in a digital world Updated: Updated: Technological changes in education and health are worsening inequities Share Article Virginia Eubanks’ widely acclaimed book, Automating Inequality, alerted us to the ways that automated decision-making tools exacerbated inequalities, especially by raising the barrier for people to receive services they are entitled to. The novel coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technologies in India, even for essential services such as health and education, where access to them might be poor. Economic inequality has increased...