@Puyangan5 Indian coal has very high ash content and is troublesome for Gasification. And as usual, we haven't put enough money on R&D regarding indigenous coal Gasification.
Shocking! Read what I had written about this temple-mosque dispute for my @frontline_india column in February this year.
Chief Justice Surya Kant’s bench has revived the very temple-mosque disputes that the Supreme Court froze barely 14 months ago. When judges change, do orders decay?
Supreme Court’s new order could unleash a new wave of temple-mosque conflicts:
https://t.co/5QdDtFc1zV
@theskindoctor13 He knows how the politically supported crime networks operate, who protects whom, where the money flows, how intimidation works, and how deep the criminal-political nexus runs.. Because he was involved in them. Masterstroke indeed
J.M. Coetzee is a magnificent writer. And, naturally, his rejection of an invitation to a literary festival in Israel is also magnificent. Brief and unsparing.
Most nationalists who actually have a choice either settle their kids abroad or are themselves NRIs. Stated preferences vs revealed preferences.
Those who don't have a choice will anyway say grapes are sour so their opinions don't count.
Even if you listen carefully to the positives cited by those who return or choose to stay, it’s mostly because of cheap labour freeing up their time and professional networks making opportunities easier. They also typically have made enough abroad to throw money to fix issues, and have properties whose prices have ballooned that they can rent out.
What about those who are doing that work for cheap and those who do not have the professional networks? What about those without real estate who are priced out of the market? Are they not living in India too?
What's in it for them?
The latest EPFO reply, read alongside the two earlier answers, completely dismantles the Government’s carefully constructed narrative used to justify meagre pensions under EPS.
“EPFO’s own employees draw an average pension of Rs. 37,045 per month”.
But the workers who sustained the system tell a different story:
* 35.9% (29,25,898 out of 81,48,490) survive on Rs. 1,000 or less per month - more than one in every three pensioners
* Over 60% (49.15 lakh) receive below Rs. 1,500
* 96.58% receive below Rs. 4,000
Meanwhile, the financial position of the scheme itself reveals no such scarcity:
• EPS corpus stands at Rs. 9.93 lakh crore as on 31.03.2025
• Interest income alone was Rs. 58,668.73 crore in 2023-24
* Other income added Rs. 863.62 crore - taking total extra income from the corpus fund to “59,532.35 crore”
Against this, the total pension paid to retired workers in 2023-24 was only “Rs. 14,990.45 crore” - barely about one-fourth of the annual income generated from the corpus, without even touching the corpus itself.
At the same time, EPFO’s own establishment and administrative expenditure in 2023-24 stood at Rs. 5,942.51 crore - nearly 40% of the total pension paid to elderly workers. “In effect, for every Rs. 2.5 paid as pension, Rs. 1 is spent on administration.”
The contrast is indefensible:
Those who administer the scheme receive dignified pensions averaging Rs. 37,045 per month, while the workers who contributed to it struggle to survive, with the overwhelming majority receiving less than Rs. 1,500 per month.
Social security cannot become a system where administrators receive Rs. 37,000 and workers are asked to live on Rs. 1,000- Rs. 1,500.
#rajyasabha #epfo #pension
@flipkartsupport Hi. My order OD336930252618346100 was scheduled to be delivered on 4th March. However, it was not delivered on that day.
Since it was an open box delivery and I was not available the next day, I rescheduled it to 7th March, today. 1/2
@AnnWeekley@ProfessorPape Nice try, in WW2 about 97 percent of Jewish babies in Europe were murdered. In Gaza less than 1 percent were killed from counterterrorism.