https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-editorials/pumped-down/

P Chidambaram https://twitter.com/PChidambaram_IN/status/1663386078051713024?cxt=HHwWgIDSqea0xJUuAAAA The editorial noted that Petrol prices were deregulated over the UPA and NDA governments between 2010 and 2014. However, the 'decontrol' reform has stopped since September 2014

Crude prices were below USD 60 between 2014 and 2021, peaked when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, but has since fallen to USD 75. Yet the Government has not passed on the benefit of lower crude prices to the people consuming petrol and diesel

It is obvious that the government is 'profiteering' through higher taxes and cesses at the cost of the people. One of the reasons why inflation is high is because of artificially-kept high prices of petrol and diesel

Jawhar Sircar @jawharsircar
Somalia’s rejected old parliament is New India’s inspiration!!
Modi’s pet architect from Gujarat — who always gets Modi’s mega contracts through “competitive bidding” 🤣 (in Ahmedabad, Varanasi, Delhi’s Parliament+Central Vista) charged us ₹230 crores to copy Somalia’s design!!
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Soter @soter8

https://thewire.in/rights/by-removing-question-from-nfhs-survey-govt-shows-its-real-attitude-to-those-with-disabilities 

The questionnaire finalised for the survey does not include anything related to disability. Even the half-hearted attempt to capture disability-related data in the previous survey has been abandoned this time. And the excuse, by all counts, is inexplicable. 

“Disability is decided on medical certification. Our surveyors are not doctors and they cannot be checking medical certificates. People could not even understand the questions properly,” a principal investigator of the NFHS told the Times of India. The NFHS technical advisory committee asked for the question to be dropped instead of ‘giving inaccurate data’. 

by Muralidharan

29/05/2023