Is Union Budget 2021-22 MGNREGA allocation enough to alleviate rural distress
Number of person days to reduce to 2.7-2.8 billion person days for next year, says expert
In rural West Bengal, debts mount and socioeconomic fabric collapses in absence of MGNREGS
Local economy hangs by a thread as residents desperately demand revival of the rural employment scheme
As told to Parliament (December 5, 2023): 2,216 million persondays under MGNREGS generated this year
All that was discussed in the House through the day
As told to Parliament (September 14, 2020): Some 10.4 million jobless migrant workers returned home post-lockdown
Why MGNREGS workers sought police complaints against the PM
Non-payment of dues, insufficient funds cause for concern
Vulnerable employment will continue to affect 72% of workers in South Asia: ILO
India is faced with the dual problem of informal and vulnerable employment
Faulty policies
Dam(n) the rivers
Interlink rivers and get delinked from true water management
A void that cannot be filled: SEWA founder Ela Bhatt dies in Ahmedabad
Ela Bhatt founded SEWA in 1972, which has since blazed a trail in empowering women in various ways
The lure of 10 million jobs a year
Employment in agriculture has increased. Will it lead to shed the belief that agriculture will not be able to employ further?
MGNREGA: Drought-hit India abandoned 18 lakh water works in just one year
India's villages miss a golden chance to become drought-proof as more MGNREGA projects grind to a halt
Education not enough
As a means of bringing long-term change in public attitudes, education at present is too weak and demands radical improvement
‘Totalitarian movements are self-destructive’
The reason socialist awareness is not possible in the 21st century is that the middle class in India in the 60s was primarily dominated by the …
'Renewable energy sector employment increased in 2015'
The total number of jobs in renewables worldwide continued to rise even as the growth in jobs slowed down compared to previous years, says a new …
Budget push for startups
New ventures to get tax holiday for three years; new customs regime to promote Make in India
We create jobs-for the US
Modi government still has no clear strategy for creating employment for the hordes of the jobless young in India
Change in immigration rules flayed
A US government plan to simplify immigration procedures for professionals in 10 short-listed vocations has come under fire
Death by starvation
About 11 million people in Orissa and Bihar have become victims of a famine that has occurred despite adequate food stocks in the country.
Against the wind
Government policies and land prices are preventing companies from setting up wind mills in Nagercoil
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After more than 30 years of struggle, the Inuit people of Canada are given more autonomy and the right to self-determination
Fighting it out
Groups of tribal women in Orissa are fighting against authorities to improve their lot by consolidating the trade of minor forest produce
Monsoon deficit spikes rural job demand under MGNREGS
Job demands in some states higher than recorded in COVID-19 pandemic
Jharkhand proposes MGNREGA worker unions
Work demand under the rural employment programme is decreasing in the state
CAG indicts Bihar for irregularities in rural job scheme implementation
Only 35 per cent beneficiaries got jobs; half of civil work undertaken left incomplete
Employment enigma: India’s high rate of self-employment gets reflected as a decrease in unemployment rate
The number of self-employed has increased in India, a trend usually seen in poor and developing countries with low per capita income
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