What has media been saying about social equity? Here are some quick links that’ll keep you updated.

“The case for pursuing financial inclusion as an integral part of official policy has never been stronger. In several respects, the concept is not alien to either the government or the Indian financial sector. Since nationalisation in 1969, banks were practising some form of financial inclusion by taking banking and other financial services to geographical areas and people who had little or no access to such services.”

The country has not been able to do away with the dehumanizing practice of manual scavenging because the issue is not just about poverty or lack of awareness. Manual scavenging is deeply rooted in caste and attempts to stop the practice are still resisted.

“ India's poverty is declining slowly, but inequality between the rich and the poor is on the rise, noted US-based economist Kaushik Basu has warned.”