The Public Distribution System needs to diversify the food basket it provides, and expand coverage to account for the population increase since 2011, says economist Reetika Khera.

Since 2019, the budget allocation for the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme that has 129 million active workers has been consistently lower than or at most same as the previous year’s revised estimates

Migrant workers from various eastern states in Ernakulam say that returning home to vote means job loss and incurring high expenses which many do not want to risk.

The notions that the colonial British government had was derived from classical Hindu texts, says sociologist Surinder Jodhka. Reality of caste is local and fluid and linked to many issues like employment and land ownership.