Rural Regress; Freedom Fasteners; Dialing Dubai

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Rural Regress

The Indian Express has sought to project deepening rural economic stress on the back of the demand for the flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGREGS) spiking to   3.04 crore in June, 2023, a third monthly above 3 crore mark since April 2014, even while the average pay of Rs 233 per day is way below the corresponding compensation of Rs 368 for casual workers elsewhere. The Noida-based daily has explained the rising unemployment among the youth, 17.3 per cent in 15-14 age group, and rising credit card defaults, Rs 4073 crores in last fiscal, to argue that the underbelly of the Indian economy is in stress.

Since the onset of the pandemic, the rural parts of the country have been reporting distress signals, also captured in non-recovery of demands for the FMCG goods, besides spiked migration, and it’s now an accepted fact that India remains on jobless growth path for quite extended timeframe.     

Freedom Fasteners

The Hindustan Times has hauled the law enforcement agencies over the coal for their profligacy to arrest people to bury individual freedom in the light of the Supreme Court remarking that a person cannot be kept behind the bar indefinitely even if arrested under the law that mandates court’s satisfaction in granting bail. The New Delhi-based daily rued that three-fourth of prisoners in India are under trials, and the apex court remark came in a case in which a person is languishing in jail for past 42 months in the Narcotics Drug and Psychotropic Substance Act, while in the period the statement of only one of the 17 witnesses has been recorded.

Finding quick fix solutions is India’s favourite sport, as reflected in growing number laws that make availing bails almost impossible, while arming the investigating agencies extensive net to cover up their incompetence to win convictions of accused.

Dialing Dubai

The Tribune has hailed India and the UAE inking pact for ensuring transactions in local currencies after Unified Payments Interface (UPI) was integrated with the UAE-based Instant Payment Platform. The Chandigarh-based daily also heaped praise on the UAE for being India’s key partner, geopolitically as well as economically, while the two countries seek to build on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement to double the trade in non-petroleum products to $100 billion by 2030.

Indians form the spine of the economy of the UAE, and both the countries are aiming transformation, becoming natural partners. The UPI-based payment pact is now certainly going global after agreements with Singapore and France.   

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