Employment plan

Fair business

West Bengal MGNREGS workers protest over stopping funds to scheme, non-payment of arrears

Protestors gather at chief labour commissioner office, ask for immediate action

MGNREGA: Demand for work up 74% in June

40 million rural households turn to job scheme — the highest since 2013-14

Investment in care services can generate 234 million jobs for women by 2035, says ILO

An annual investment of $5.4 trillion will be required to generate these jobs

Employed but poor

Poverty among employed people underscores the need for a new strategy on job creation

A reminder to Vasundhara Raje

Why employment has to be guaranteed through an Act, not a scheme

Scheme for tribalfolk

Drumming it in

Should local communities pay for Western notions of 'global benefit'?

Healing Afghanistan

The karez system could solve the country's water problems

Guards back with tigers

Court orders salaries for Valmiki Tiger Reserve staff

Home run

J&K halts export of willow clefts used for making cricket bats

Burdensome load

Laid-off tea workers fall back on forests in West Bengal

ILO says economic growth leads to longer working hours in Asia

It's the economy Americans are worried about

Works unwell

Employment guarantee scheme workers in Rajasthan do not get their dues

Demand of record 30 million jobs for MGNREGS reflects rural distress

Men outnumbered women for the 1st time in job demand

Simply Put: Marriage and employment

Levelled out: MGNREGA helps bring in more land under cultivation in Ranga Reddy

Having levelled the terrain, farmers for the first time take up agriculture

Rural priorities must be set by villagers

Bull's eye

India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme put on hold

Employment guarantee scheme brought to an abrupt halt

Business on pedals

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