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Insecure, Underpaid and Unsafe

Vol - L No. 7, February 14, 2015 

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India's vast informal sector workforce is entitled to a minimum wage and job security.

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Editorials Hope in the Grecian Air Syriza has brought back hope and national pride in Greece, but will it succeed? Read more	H T Parekh Finance Column Greece, Its International Creditors and the Euro T Sabri Öncü Can the Syriza government in Greece maintain an impossible triangle: (1) stay in power, (2) reverse austerity, and (3) stay in the euro? It will all depend on whether the European Union sees itself as a progressive ethical project of civilisation... Read more
Commentary Regulation of Clinical Trials and the Need for Comprehensive Reform Dhvani Mehta The proposed amendments to the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 are inadequate to effect the fundamental changes that the existing regulatory regime is crying out for. A wholesale consolidation and re-enactment of the existing secondary legislation... Read more	Commentary Vasudhara Adivasi Dairy Cooperative Model for the Second White Revolution? Tushaar Shah, Yashree Mehta, Shilp Verma, Amit Patel India's White Revolution has made the country the largest milk producer in the world, but this has bypassed the Adivasi heartland of the central Indian plateau. The Vasudhara cooperative, which has organised 1,20,000 mostly Adivasi women from... Read more
Commentary 'Regulation' and 'Non-Media' Money in Media Sandeep Bhushan The close nexus between chit fund operators and politicians on one side and the media on the other typifi es the growing importance of the media to political parties and to the political process in general. The path-breaking Telecom Regulatory... Read more	Commentary Government vs Private Schools in ASER 2014 Need to Avoid Binaries Vivek Vellanki The release of the independent Annual Status of Education Report has become an annual event, bringing attention to the status of learning amongst children in rural India. An examination of the 2014 report looks at the representation of data... Read more
Book Reviews Territorial Sovereignty in India and Its Discontents Priya Chacko How India Became Territorial: Foreign Policy, Diaspora and Geopolitics by Itty Abraham (Stanford: Stanford University Press), 2014; pp xviii + 217, price not indicated. Read more	Book Reviews Subjective Narration of the Indira Gandhi Years Chakravarthi Raghavan The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years by Pranab Mukherjee (New Delhi, India: Rupa Publications), 2015; pp x + 321, Rs 595. Read more
Insight Understanding Leakages in the Public Distribution System Jean Dreze, Reetika Khera This article attempts to resolve the puzzle of public distribution system leakages using the latest available data. Leakages remain high, but there is clear evidence of improvement in recent years, especially in states -- including Bihar -- that... Read more	Special Articles Right to Education and Inclusion in Private Unaided Schools An Exploratory Study in Bengaluru and Delhi Archana Mehendale, Rahul Mukhopadhyay, Annie Namala Section 12(1)(c) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 provides for inclusion of children from disadvantaged and weaker sections in private unaided schools. Although meant to foster inclusion and achieve social... Read more
Special Articles Implications of Land Acquisition for Dalits Explorations in Maharashtra Dhanmanjiri Sathe This paper tries to capture the externalities that arise from land acquisition and the consequent development that occurs on the acquired land. A case study of Maan village close to Pune in Maharashtra attempts to see if the externalities arising... Read more	Special Articles Subaltern Historiography to Dalit Historiography Tracing Heterogeneity in Dalit ‘Subalternity’ Kalyan Das Existing academic scholarship on Dalit writings and politics seems to be heavily marked by a common perception that such politics almost always focuses on claiming the state corridors of power. This article contests that view and seeks to trace... Read more
Notes Spectators or Participants? Effects of Social Auditsin Andhra Pradesh Yamini Aiyar, Soumya Kapoor Mehta How does a hierarchical, top-down state respond to efforts to become directly accountable towards its citizens? This article analyses this question through India's experience with implementing social audits for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural... Read more	Discussion Revolutionary Armed Struggle in India C P Bhambri This comment on the ever-present tussle between the Indian Naxal movement and the Indian state, as also the role of the Maoist leadership, is a response to Sumanta Banerjee's "Hanoi (1965-68), Gaza (2014): Continuity and Divergence over... Read more
Economic Notes New Series of National Accounts: A Review EPW Research Foundation The new series of national accounts released by the Central Statistics Office has made a number of conceptual changes and has tapped new sources of data. This note presents a discussion of the key modifications in this new series of national... Read more	Referees Consulted in 2014 Referees Consulted in 2014 Read more
Reports From the States / Web Exclusives Goa's Mining Logjam Pamela D’Mello The stage is all set for the resumption of iron ore mining in Goa after it was suspended in the state in 2012, to curb its indiscriminate and illegal mining. The Goa government’s decision to renew the mining leases comes at a time when the... Read more