Prime Minister Narendra Modi Prime Minister Narendra ModiHistorically oppressed groups like Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims, women and casual informal workers continue to be the most excluded when it comes to access to public goods essential for a person to live with dignity, according to the India Exclusion Report 2016 released on Friday. The Centre for Equity Studies (CES) has prepared the report that looks at the exclusion especially of these vulnerable groups in pensions for senior citizens, digital access, agricultural land and justice for under-trials. The report notes that despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election promise to create 10 million jobs, job creation has fallen to levels even below those under the preceding governments half-way through his tenure. Former University Grants Commission chairman Sukhadeo Thorat, who launched the report, pointed out that a distinction has to be made between social and economic exclusion. The report quotes an Ericsson Consumer Lab, 2015, study on the issue of digital exclusion.

Source: Indian Express May 13, 2017 00:00 UTC