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Employment
MGNREGA inefficiently managed, finds CAG
Issue Date: Apr 23, 2013
Exactly five years after the employment guarantee programme's pan-India roll out, the programme seems to have lost favour with the rural poor. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) office submitted its latest audit report on the programme to Parliament on April 23. The audit shows around 20 per cent decline in employment generation under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the last two years.
Elusive hunt for skills and jobs
@ljishnu Issue Date: Mar 31, 2013
Finance minister Palaniappan Chidambaram had a rousing theme in this year’s budget: the youth.
On shaky ground
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2009
Alok Kumar Gupta
Nearly half a million people living in and around the Jharia coalfield in Jharkhand have to be shifted to control underground fires. But the government has no sound strategy for their rehabilitation and the people have no trust in the government
Sponge iron industries are killing fields
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2006
Wayward growth
Since 2002, India has been the largest producer of sponge iron, also called direct reduced iron (dri), in the world. Today about 20 per cent of the sponge iron produced worldwide is made in India.
SEZ, how special?
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2006
Roughshod riding
SEZs will trample on farmers' rights
A farmer in Cheete Kalan village in Amritsar, Harjeet Singh Hundal, has big plans. For the past year, he has been using organic manure on his fertile and irrigated agricultural land and he can't stop talking about it.
Private affairs
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2006
Public or private?
Impotent plan?
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2006
Imampur village is in Nagar taluka of Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, a rain shadow area. For more than two years now, the agriculture department has been implementing a watershed project here, using egs money. But when dte visited Imampur, it found out that while an entire hillock was covered with continuous contour trenches (ccts ), there was no tree plantation. Why?
Meltdown
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2006
Stunted stunt
Driven by IT, plagued by it
Theirs to mine?
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2005
In the Kashipur block of district Rayagadh, Orissa, a 12-year-old conflict between villagers and a mining consortium shows no signs of abating.
Jobs Jobs Jobs
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2004
Jobs are what all Indians want. Governments know this. But they do not know how to create jobs. The problem is that the much-touted mantra of economic growth does not generate jobs. In fact, the reverse is quite true: India suffers from the growth-without-jobs syndrome.
