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Wholesale and Retail Food Prices in Maharashtra during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Vol. 56, Issue No. 40, 02 Oct, 2021
Nidhi Kaicker, Raghav Gaiha, Radhika Aggarwal

The analysis builds on the extant literature in three ways: it covers the longest period of the lockdown; offers robust comparisons of means and variances of food commodities’ prices and the price wedge between them in different cities/market centres in Maharashtra during the lockdown relative to the pre-pandemic period; and finally gives a distillation of time-series analysis of co-movements of wholesale and retail prices between pairs of centre/wholesale and retail prices, mutual dependence of wholesale and retail prices, taking their lags into account, and their time-varying volatility.

COVID-19 Lockdown and Human Development

Vol. 56, Issue No. 38, 18 Sep, 2021
Chandrika Singh, Shoumeli Das, Anuradha Nair

Maharashtra has emerged as the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the trade-off between lockdowns to flatten the infection curve and saving an already slow economy, there is a significant human cost, thus exposing and deepening the existing structural inequalities. The article maps and analyses the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown based on the three dimensions of human development—health and nutrition, education, and livelihood. Given the acute shortage of food supplies for certain groups during the period, the article examines the government response by analysing the implementation of food programmes.  

 

March for Backwardness

Vol. 56, Issue No. 28, 10 Jul, 2021
Rajagopal Devara

Overviewing the historical trajectory of the demand for the reservations for Marathas, the background conditions for such demand are sought be explained. The nature of the agitation for reservations and the political response to the agitation are analysed.

 

COVID-19 and the Sugar Cane Cutter Migrants of Maharashtra

Vol. 56, Issue No. 18, 01 May, 2021
Prashant Bansode

There is an urgent need to issue a policy resolution to ensure the social security and safety of sugar cane migrant labourers in the light of Covid-19 crisis. A failure to do so would lead to an absurd situation for the state, sugar industry, farmers and, more so, for the migrant labour.

 

Translating Public Protests into the Digital Realm

Vol. 56, Issue No. 14, 03 Apr, 2021
Abhishek S

Notes from an Ambedkarite cultural troupe about taking the protest site online.

Education as a Moral Horizon

Vol. 55, Issue No. 51, 26 Dec, 2020
Gopal Guru

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Symbiotic Federalism

Vol. 55, Issue No. 39, 26 Sep, 2020

The federal government should be the manifestation of the principle of fairness towards the states.

Not by Prosperity Alone

Vol. 55, Issue No. 37, 12 Sep, 2020
Satish B Agnihotri

The Paradox of Rural Development in India: The Devapur Experience by Suresh Suratwala, Bhopal: Kishore Bharati, 2020; pp 197, ₹150 (paperback).

Locked Down and Left Out

Vol. 55, Issue No. 28-29, 11 Jul, 2020
Brian Lobo

The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown have further marginalised the precarious lives of the Adivasis of Dahanu, Maharashtra.

Locked Down, Trapped and Abandoned Migrant Workers in Pune City

Vol. 55, Issue No. 26-27, 27 Jun, 2020
Anuradha Kalhan, Shamsher Singh, Kiran Moghe

A survey of workers in Pune city who were waiting to go back home after the national lockdown was first announced shows their plight and living conditions. Its findings provide valuable insights on what migrant workers need and what the policy decisions regarding them should consider.

Farmer Suicides in Maharashtra, 2001–2018

Vol. 55, Issue No. 25, 20 Jun, 2020
Dnyandev Talule

Farmer suicides are an unfortunate result of the agrarian distress plaguing the rural economy of many states of the country. Marathwada and Vidarbha regions in Maharashtra have recorded very high numbers of farmer suicides, and an attempt to calculate the number of suicides and the suicide mortality rate is the first step towards gaining an in-depth understanding of the prevalence and seriousness of the issue. An analysis of the data reveals the relationship between farmer suicides and issues such as monsoon failure, water shortage, drought, absence of social security, robust crop procurement mechanisms and increasing debt burdens.

Implementation of Community Forest Rights

Vol. 55, Issue No. 18, 02 May, 2020
Geetanjoy Sahu

The Vidarbha region of Maharashtra presents a unique case in the implementation of community forest rights where much of the region’s potential community forest rights claims have been recognised in the name of gram sabhas under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. The key factors like the collective action of gram sabhas, the role of non-governmental organisations, grassroots organisations, and state implementing agencies, and their collaboration in advancing the implementation of cfr are explained here. There is need to support the upscaling of cfr across India, and to analyse the broader implications for forest resource governance at a national scale.

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