Rajendran Narayanan

A cashless economy, at present, is a pipe dream in rural India

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

Timely payment is not merely a question of political or bureaucratic efficiency but that of life and death for those on the margins of subsistence

A wage payment to a labourer can be rejected for a variety of reasons, such as incorrect MIS entries and mismatch of names and bank account numbers