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Missing the Jobs for the Data Improvements 8 ISSUES AND INSIGHTS MUMBAI | THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2019 > ister Sheila Dikshit to say, “I don’t want required to bring in a radical change and > CHINESE WHISPERS the ugly box in my drawing room”. to stimulate the market to provide choice 2003 redux The CAS politics was unfolding too of viewing”, Trai had said in 2004. close to the upcoming 2004 Lok Sabha The latest Trai order may not meet Trai's latest intervention in the cable and DTH market has created more elections and it had to end. The best the vision with which it started regulat- All in the family option before the government was to roll ing the broadcasting industry. For Nakul Nath's confusion than it has solved it back. It did that, while getting Trai to instance, growth and competition of (pictured) expand its role so that it could manage businesses could be stifled through the appearance the mess after the government-ordered way a broadcasting company would like broadcasting along with telecom. The diktat on à la carte pricing, as packaging in the social conditional access system or CAS went to do business, all hell has broken loose, first thing that Trai did was to cap prices holds the key to success in the broad- media and completely out of hand in 2003, this time threatening a blackout if the companies at the existing level, while saying it was casting industry where content offered with state the regulator itself has triggered a situa- in question don’t comply by February 1. a temporary measure. The regulator did- across platforms is mostly similar. Where Congress tion that is no less messy. This is not very different from what hap- n’t want to lose any time in sending a packages and bouquets will be allowed, leaders has Trai, originally just a telecom super pened when the government believed (or message across — that consumers those must come with transparent pric- fuelled regulator, has set a February 1 deadline did it?) CAS — watching channels of wouldn’t be hurt. It was necessary ing. The catch lies there. What exactly rumours that for broadcasters and platform owners choice through a set top box — was the because while trying to bring transparen- would be transparent pricing of pack- the son of the new Madhya Pradesh such as direct-to-home (DTH) and cable only way to bring order to the unorgan- cy into the system, it was found that get- ages? The second point is about afford- chief minister, Kamal Nath, may contest services to comply with its new tariff ised broadcasting industry . The entire ting pay channels through CAS was ability. Just like in the case of CAS, a con- from Chhindwara in the coming Lok order. The essence of that order is that a Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, includ- pushing up the monthly bill for a large sumer wanting a host of pay channels of Sabha elections. The seat is held by his NOT FOR PROFIT consumer should get the channels of her ing the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), number of consumers. That’s the reason, her choice would shell out a large sum, father, who will vacate it and contest an choice and pay for only that, instead of was at work for months trying to put Chennai — predominantly a free to air possibly much more than she would get Assembly seat. Nath Junior resides in NIVEDITA MOOKERJI her being charged for a package or a bou- together a policy that would streamline market at that point — was the only city in a package tailored by a DTH or a cable Delhi but many local Congress leaders quet tailored by a DTH or a cable com- the sector, which was at the mercy of a to roll out CAS rather successfully. operator even if it means getting a bun- have been demanding his candidature t’s the 2003 syndrome hitting us all pany. The idea is to reduce the monthly handful of cable sharks and thousands On the whole, regulation in broad- dle of irrelevant and silly channels with from the seat that his father had won over again 15 years later. The idiot TV bill for a consumer by offering every of small corner shop operators who got casting, through Trai, was meant to pro- some good ones of your choice. nine times. He has started visiting I box is once more under attack and channel à la carte, with the price dis- us hooked to those prime time soaps. mote growth and competition in the sec- The regulatory intervention was sup- Chhindwara regularly since campaigning so is our TV viewing habit, whatever is played on the electronic programme Needless to say, the government tor so that consumers have affordable posed to stimulate the market, but the for the seat kicked off last November. He left of it post Netflix and Facebook. guide. If there are packages, the prices failed miserably even after much brain- prices for their home entertainment and latest order seems quite on the contrary. can be seen on social media, promoting Ironically enough, while the Telecom must be published in a transparent man- storming with all stakeholders including can choose between alternative plat- Ahead of another Lok Sabha election, various state government initiatives Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) got ner too, rather than camouflaging things state governments. By this time, the set forms and channels. This was stated in should the government allow another including loan waivers, grants on additional mandate for managing the in the fineprint. top box for cable TV had become a dirty the Trai preamble for the broadcasting CAS like confusion when it can be very purchasing agricultural instruments, and television broadcasting sector to settle Since the order has gone against the word, prompting then Delhi chief min- sector. “Regulatory intervention is well avoided? so on. Digital farmers native in the form of an Employment The Congress government in Madhya Index created out of the Labour Bureau’s Pradesh is taking the digital India quarterly surveys after significant campaign to a wholly new level. To bring Missing the jobs for the data improvements. farmers on the digital platform, the On the EPFO’s payroll data, the government is planning to allot them Anant panel said the database needs sig- real time wallets. With a fund of ~15,000- The government has scrapped existing job surveys nificant changes by bringing the data in 45,000, these wallets will help farmers to tune with the National Industrial buy seeds and fertiliser even if they don’t but has moved slowly on creating replacements Classification (NIC) standards. Besides, have money in their bank accounts. EPFO, which covers enterprises with Farmers will also get a smart card with SOMESH JHA the government had stopped making more than 20 workers, is proven to be real time update of their acreage, crop public the result of quarterly enterprises unstable as the figures get revised every and livestock data. The card will be he National Democratic Alliance survey (QES) of the Labour Bureau. month retrospectively because of linked to the Google Map as well. This is (NDA) has been combatting crit- A panel, led by former chief statisti- delayed filings by employers. expected to help government officials T icism of poor job creation with a cian TCA Anant and set up on the rec- Mukherjee said an area frame survey know about the possible bumper counter-narrative that the country lacks ommendations of the Prime Minister’s of the Labour Bureau, of units that production or shortage. proper employment statistics. Office (PMO), recently recommended employ less than 10 workers, would offer But the conundrum is this: The exist- doing away with the Labour Bureau’s a perspective on the larger informal sec- ing exercises to collate official jobs statis- QES and replacing it with either a first- tor employment. The survey may be tics have been discontinued and of-its-kind Employment Index or an commissioned by the end of this year. Message and messenger replacement surveys are still to begin. improved version of the EPFO data. REAL SCENARIO The government’s promise to create millions of jobs cannot be But, as a government official pointed Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's appointment The result: Whether Narendra Modi has Before that, towards the end of 2017, verified considering the existing exercises to collate official jobs statistics have been out, the most important step in reform- as Congress national general secretary fulfilled a 2014 campaign promise to cre- the household surveys of the Labour discontinued and replacement surveys are still to begin ing the country’s statistical framework in charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh on ate millions of jobs cannot be verified. Bureau were discontinued and the is to frame a schedule for release of sur- Wednesday has enthused not just The critics contend that, National Sample Survey veys establish the employment-unem- ogy. But it agreed, a monthly household veys — a key missing element when it party leaders close to her but some with official and private sur- Organisation’s quinquennial ployment rate and the establishment survey in a country as large as India may comes to jobs statistics. like Janata Dal (United) Vice-President veys indicating a sharp rise (once every five years) sur- surveys give a better idea of various sec- take some time. For instance, the Labour Bureau’s Prashant Kishor. In his earlier avatar in unemployment, alterna- veys have also stopped. But tors of the economy and employment “Household surveys are the best way sixth employment-unemployment sur- as an election strategist, Kishor had tive methodologies are it is planned to be replaced policies are sector-based.” of capturing the employment situation.
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