COVID-19: What about India’s migrant workers?

Rajasthan-based non-profit presented a charter of demands to union government demanding safety net for migrant workers

Small businesses provide most jobs in under developed, developing nations: ILO

Policy makers need to focus on informal sector and small economic units to address fundamental challenges of employment creation and improvement …

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 19-24)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Expect budget to be rural-centric, focus on delivery to beneficiaries

PM Modi has already launched a major water conservation campaign, put the focus of his second tenure on revival of the agrarian economy

Increase minimum wage by Rs 199, cut calorie intake by 300, suggests expert panel

Suggestions include different national minimum wages across different geographical regions in the country to suit local requirement

Political parties choose farm loan waiver for electoral gains, but at what cost?

Farmers have outstanding loan of Rs12.60 lakh crore, which translates to Rs 100,000 per cultivator

Poverty eradication - Why do we always fail?

The government plans to bring one crore households out of poverty by 2019. Such targets are announced each year, but why don’t they work?

Economic Survey recommends using MGNREGA to revive water bodies

Revival will lead to an increase in the net irrigation potential

A Mea Culpa budget

The budget is expected to have all the elements that will empower the government to say, ‘We are pro-poor’

Women and a nervous regime

Emboldened by SHG movement, reservation in panchayats, women emerge as key constituency

Orissa kendu leaf workers end strike

Grim reality of India's poverty dip

Rs 1 crore due to NREGS workers in UP

NREGA’s technological sabbatical

Job cards of many to expire in 2011 and renewal would take time

How women seized NREGA

Farmers have decreased, farm labourers increased: census report

Only 54.6 per cent of total workers in India are now part of the agriculture sector

Our smaller future

Is the rural economy driving India’s recovery?

Government spending has led to demand growth in rural areas; but what if it comes down?

मनरेगा जरूरी या मजबूरी -6: बढ़ानी होगी रोजगार की गारंटी

मनरेगा जैसे रोजगार गारंटी कार्यक्रम ना केवल लोगों के घर में कुछ पैसा लाएगा और बाजार में भी डिमांड पैदा करेगा

मनरेगा, जरूरी या मजबूरी-1: 85 फीसदी बढ़ गई काम की मांग

कोरोना काल में कितनी कारगर साबित होगी मनरेगा योजना, डाउन टू अर्थ की व्यापक पड़ताल-

Spare me my noodles

As the India-China standoff becomes more tense and anti-Chinese sentiment builds up in India, will ‘Chinese food’ be banned  

प्रधानमंत्री कौशल विकास योजना: कहां हुई चूक?

40 करोड़ युवाओं के कौशल में विकास का लक्ष्य हासिल करने के लिए प्रधानमंत्री कौशल विकास योजना की शुरुआत हुई थी, लेकिन...

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सड़क, पाइपलाइन जैसे रैखीय परियोजनाओं के लिए मिट्टी का खनन करने की इजाजत होगी। इसके अलावा बांध-जलाशयों आदि से गाद की सफाई के लिए ...

COVID-19: Centre’s relief package an eyewash for NREGA workers

The Rs 1.7 lakh crore package by the Centre has nothing for the 13 million NREGA workers

Water-stressed in India: In Thanjavur, an outlier in need of conservation measures

The district ranked third in terms of water-conservation works under Jal Shakti Abhiyan