Responding to the Union Budget announcement that 80 million poor families will benefit from free liquefied cooking gas, Krishnavatar Sharma, Co-Founder and Director of Programmes at Aajeevika Bureau, said:

“Our Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is right to recognise the ‘curse of smoke’ for the women of India. Women spend time and energy collecting firewood and plastic to cook with, and in turn suffer from lifelong health problems. The wom...

The proportion of working age population in India is more than 60 per cent. In 2001 it was 58 per cent. As the discussion of reaping the demographic dividend is going on there is a need to understand not only the reproductive health of this age group but also understand the specific disabilities that this age group has.

As a percentage of total working population there is 2.2 per cent of working population in the c...

                                  Are they really having High Standard of Living?

The quinquennial survey on employment and unemployment o...