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One year on, access to subsidised food remains a crucial challenge for migrant workers The government’s One Nation, One Ration Card scheme has operational difficulties, a survey in Ahmedabad finds. Migrant workers in Ahmedad. | Aajeevika Bureau. When Narendra Modi imposed a lockdown on March 24 last year to prevent the spread of Covid-19, it had a brutal impact on millions of India’s informal workers. Left overnight without the daily-wage jobs that sustained them, many of them did not have the documents necessary to access social security benefits – most notably, subs...

This Gujarat-based startup won India's Top 500 start-up award and has recycled more than 150K smartphones This Gujarat-based startup won India's Top 500 start-up award and has recycled more than 150K smartphones ANI | Updated: May 06, 2021 15:09 IST Valsad (Gujarat) [India], May 6 (ANI/PNN): With the consistent developments and innovations in the Indian startup environment, more and more women are chasing the entrepreneurial dream. That also empowers other Indian women who are still bound to the traditional homemaker role to have an independent perspectiv...

Note: Figures in parenthesis are percentages. Our findings highlight some of the financial and social distresses faced by these entrepreneurs at an individual, household and enterprise level. We acknowledge that our study has the limitations of a phone survey conducted during the lockdown. First, our study suffers from potential selection bias and positively skewed income and closure variables since entrepreneurs with lower household-level stress, or better business performance are likely to respond to survey calls. Additionally, not all information could be triangulated since the informatio...

Indian coders script ways to beat vaccination queues May 05, 2021 Their bots however raise the ethical issue of inclusion Not able to get a vaccination appointment? Or, managed to get one only to find the hospital has run out of vaccines? A host of Indian coders, who found themselves in a similar situation, have managed to get around it by cracking the code on the Co-Win website. Take Bengaluru-based techie, Sarthak* , who created an algorithm that allowed him to automatically log into the Co-Win site and schedule a vaccination appointment based on realtime availability of a vaccine at a cen...

In the times of COVID-19, it is desirable to know jobs that can be performed from home. A most common way to estimate jobs that can be performed from home is by carrying out surveys. However, unavailability of surveys in the home country compels researchers to estimate a work from home index using other countries’ surveys. This can potentially lead to large measurement errors. We believe that to overcome these challenges rating-based methodology provides a reasonable alternative which can easily be replicated in any country. Using rating-based methodology and statistical tools like inter...