Rajendran Narayanan

Stories by Rajendran Narayanan

Mystery of the 'vanishing' jobs data

Mystery of the 'vanishing' jobs data

Rediff.com   7 Feb 2019

Given the rapid changes in the Indian labour market, there is an urgent need to have current, accurate and publicly available data through regular, dynamic and comprehensive surveys. Indeed, this was the intention behind constituting the NITI Aayog Task Force on Improving Employment Data. The attempts by the government to "improve" labour data has actually made it worse, say Rosa Abraham, Janaki Shibu & Rajendran Narayanan.

Give me hope!

Give me hope!

Rediff.com   1 Oct 2017

'Indian democracy has become an oxymoron.I am hopeful that more people will boycott this politics of perversion and hatred and realise that this isn't sustainable for our great nation to prosper.

The invisible men and women of Aadhaar

The invisible men and women of Aadhaar

Rediff.com   1 Aug 2017

It was supposed to be a panacea against corruption, leakage and a magic wand for financial inclusion. But everywhere you look are people who enrolled, only to fall through the cracks again.