Livelihoods get a hiding
(WorldNews India)

Vinod Kumar Jatav (40) never went to school. He has been skinning dead animals for the last 30 years, and knows no other job. But as trade in animal parts is now fraught with risk, he has been virtually unemployed for the last year. `We are under constant threat when we go out to skin an animal. Cow vigilantes have made us feel like criminals. Now even the police are working with them,` says the Bareilly resident. Jatav`s misery underscores what the government`s chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian had warned about in June. Soon after the government came out with its cattle sale restrictions, he cautioned: `If social policies impede the workings of the livestock market, the impact on...