“The survey affirms that the urban poor have borne a disproportionate burden of the loss”. The Indian EXPRESS
Highlights BY: Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vichar ManchCovid-19 pandemic has widened economic inequities. Government interventions must be mindful of this challenge
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1. The upcoming Union budget provides the government an opportunity to intervene aggressively to ease the pain.(i)
(ii) The survey affirms that the urban poor have borne a disproportionate burden of the loss.
(iii) As per the data, of the poorest 20 per cent of households, the share of urban households has risen from 10 per cent earlier to 30 per cent now, with the casual wage labour, petty trader, and household workers in Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities having been hit the most.
(iv) Surveys in India tend to underestimate household consumption and income when compared to data from the National Accounts.
(v) In the case of some surveys, the extent of underestimation has actually widened over the years. This makes it difficult to arrive at precise estimates of the distribution of income, consumption or wealth or their averages across various population subgroups.
(vi) However, the data gathered in this survey does provide some sense of the extent of the economic pain caused by the pandemic.
(vii) Considering that large parts of the economy continue to face financial distress, this needs to be urgently addressed.
(viii) The upcoming Union budget provides the government an opportunity to intervene aggressively to ease the pain.
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(i) “The slogan or demand, ‘A Sikh Sovereign State or the demand of Sikh Rights’ was and is being raised at the instance of the Indian government agencies, it has altogether a different meaning and the slogan or demand of ‘A Sikh Sovereign State’ being used like a double edged weapon to eliminate and defame Sikhs, leveling them as the separatists and anti-India.
(ii) Sikhs are one of the co-sharers in India and thus can not be anti-India. As to how Sikhs can be anti to their native land i.e. India as one of the co-sharers in India?
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(ii) Could the slogans be always like this, ‘Never lose faith in the dream of independence within India’? By: Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vichar Manch
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(i) “The government “extinguishing history” or the history made part of the record of history”?
(iii) Whenever, the so-called nationalists in power or without power in India level any co-sharer in India as an enemy or anti-India, let it be Sikhs or Muslims or someone else as a class, may be minority or majority community, then, such leveled co-sharer for his own maximum benefits in India has legal right to get his share partitioned out of the jointly held land i.e. India”. Sikhs Can’t Be Anti-India Or None Else - By Balbir Singh Sooch
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Covid-19 pandemic has widened economic inequities. Government interventions must be mindful of this challenge
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