India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme put on hold

Employment guarantee scheme brought to an abrupt halt

Business on pedals

COVID-19 has cost sub-Saharan Africa 13.5 million jobs in working hour losses: ILO

Nearly 5 million workers and their families in sub-Saharan Africa have been pushed into extreme poverty due to COVID-19, ILO says

COVID-19: Asia-Pacific region lost 8% of working hours in 2020, says report

The pandemic pushed 75-80 million people in developing Asia-Pacific region into extreme poverty in 2020

Where will farmers go to get jobs?

There is a significant reduction in farm jobs. India must create alternative opportunities for those abandoning agriculture

Indian lessons for Dilma Rousseff

Brazil's handling of its social programmes amidst a political crisis will have immense ramifications

Cast away

After being at the receiving end of both militants and the state government, Kashmir's village heads are now threatening to boycott next year's …

Employment schemes fail to ease rural poverty

The government's employment generation schemes, laudable though they may be, have yet to achieve their goals. Not involving intended …

As told to Parliament (March 23, 2022): Thermal plants coal stock at 39% of normative requirement

All that was discussed in the House through the day

MGNREGA wages not paid for seven months in Amaravati

Social activists inform Bombay High Court

Bihar lowers wage under MGNREGA

State blames poor financial condition for the move

Threadbare clothes, school drop outs due to lack of uniforms: West Bengal MGNREGA workers’ lives in tatters

Central government’s freeze on funds for rural employment scheme has completely degraded villagers’ living conditions

Stark difference: MGNREGS demand in West Bengal plummets on paper, but villagers say desperate for work

Work demand dropped to 2.4 million in 2022-23 from 13.2 million 2020-21

Just 3% of MNREGA job seekers received unemployment allowance, shows central panel report

Department of Rural Development replies will look into the issue, state government’s responsibility to pay interest accrued on unpaid …

Low-paid, young women: The grim truth about who this recession is hitting hardest

While total monthly hours worked by men fell by 7.7% between March and May, total monthly hours worked by women fell 12%  

Scheme against jobs

Government is bent upon shrinking jobs for the poor by fundamentally changing the rural employment guarantee scheme against the advice of its …

Filling public employment vacancies & regularising all workers, especially women, should be new government’s priority

In the longer term, MGNREGA must be allowed to recover; an urban version must be formulated & micro, small and medium enterprises must …

Taking charge for water

A young sarpanch in Maharashtra helps his village residents avail drinking water at home 

How MGNREGA water conservation project turned a Rajasthan district into an Oasis

The greenery in Dungarpur district is a stark contrast to the desert state

Wealth in waste

Greens see red

Work for food

Employment guarantee means entitlement to rural livelihood and food security

MALAR miracle

From literacy to economic independence

Revamp, really?

Government juggles with data to rehash Northeast India's industrial policy

A new silk route out of China

The Asian giant unravels the most extensive genetic mapping of the silkworm