Shashank's Blog

Dear Young Minds and Future of India Farewell Greetings to All of You We all have entered the third decade of the 21st century, which has given us the wisdom to illustrate the classic example of uncertainties. The battle between lives and livelihoods has got initiated. Suddenly, the old spice of life seems to be missing and new spice of life seems to enter into human lives. Places of interest have no visitors, places of worship are silent, school and other public places all are empty. Except for human beings, others are enjoying it. Animals are freely walking on roads, birds are chirping, no pollution, and overall natural beauty is spreading its mesmerizes elegance with leaps and bounds. Remember, repeatedly nature is sending a message to us- “We are not necessary, the air, water, earth, sky all are fine without us. When you will come back, remember you are my gust, not my masters”. My friends, hope you understand the hidden message loud and clear. Your responsibilities...

COVID-19 Will Further Widen New Generation of Inequality Shashank Vikram Pratap Singh  PhD Scholar Department of Commerce Delhi School of Economics   University of Delhi.  & Rana Vishal Vikram Pratap Singh Professional Banker and Associated with Yes Bank Ltd. The third decades of the 21st century are witnessing the biggest scatting, deadly, and the most cowardly attack on humanity. Covid-19 has hugely affected the lives and livelihoods of billions of people across the world at a time when the advancement and supremacy of science and technology are the most pressing subject matters for nations to distinguish and illustrate their dominance and power among low and high human development nations. This technological advancement has become the reason for a new form of inequalities among low and high developed countries in this 21st century. The enormous and more intensified impact of Covid-19 on humanity is further going to deepen this N...

COVID-19 Stimulus Package to   Credit- Starved MSMEs Shashank Vikram Pratap Singh   Ph.D. Scholar Department of Commerce Delhi School of Economics University of Delhi. ssvikrampratap@gmail.com Over the past few decades, the Micro, Small, and Medium enterprise (MSME) sector have occupied a position of strategic importance in the Indian economic structure. This sector contributes nearly 28 percent of the country’s GDP, employing over 111 million people in nearly 63.38 million widely dispersed enterprises across the country, accounting 45 percent of manufactured output, 40 percent of the country’s total export and producing more than 8000 value-added products ranging from traditional to high-tech.   Further, these enterprises are the kindergarten for innovation and entrepreneurship which will be the key to the future growth of India. It is also an acknowledged fact that this sector can help realize the target of the proposed National Manufacturin...

Amid Lock down , Relief Packages for Lives and Livelihood of People; COVID-19 Shashank Vikram Pratap Singh  Ph.D. Scholar Department of Commerce Delhi School of Economics University of Delhi. ssvikrampratap@gmail.com Undoubtedly, the enormous impact of deadly COVID-19 on the economy and humanity is believed to be bigger than the sum of all crises in the last century. The livelihood and way of livings of more than fifty hundred million people across the world have incredibly affected by it. Complete shout down in many countries across the world is sufficient enough to believe so. Globally more than five lakhs people have infected and around 26 thousand people have died so far in the last three months. Countries having the best of the best technologies, the highest level of scientific advancements and the global best health care infrastructure too are suffering hugely. The powerful invincibility of this virus has completely uprooted existing systems of econ...

Self-Curfew and Fight Against COVID-19. Shashank Vikram Pratap Singh  Ph.D. Scholar Department of Commerce Delhi School of Economics University of Delhi. ssvikrampratap@gmail.com The whole globe is witnessing the biggest scathing attack on humanity. In the last more than half a century, the world has not seen such an enormous, more intensified and disastrous attack of deadly and fearful virus called COVID-19. More than 150 nations have witnessed the untimed death of more than 10000 people so far in the last two months at a time when the advancement and supremacy of science and technology are the most pressing subject matters for nations to illustrate their dominance and power.  The complete choking of health care system of even the most advanced and nations having the global best health care facilities, including the US, China and almost whole Europe is the classical example of the mockery of scientific advancement and the invincibility of COV...

Gender Parity- Analysis of Gender Gap Report 2020. Shashank Vikram Pratap Singh Ph.D. Scholar Department of Commerce Delhi School of Economics University of Delhi The debate on equality and inequality is as old as human civilization. It has further deepened into the intellectual discourse with the advent of knowledge and technology-driven economy. In the intellectual climate and deeply rooted academic world, there are a plethora of diverse sets of opinions. Established thinkers and scholars like Smith, Piketty to Richard Wilkinson and many more, have intellectually argued for the advantages and disadvantages of having inequality and not having inequality in the society.  The term inequality is viewed with the prism of many constructs like income inequality, social inequality, inequality based on gender and many more. When the discrimination is practiced based on gender, it's unquestionable that it becomes highly disastrous for the overall advance progress o...