A new silk route out of China

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

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Drop in unemployment not necessarily good news

The unskilled Venkataswamy

Recharge plan: Tupewadi’s tryst with MGNREGA a boost to water table

Having depleted groundwater, Jalna farmers replenish the resource through bunds

Union Budget 2020-21: Total rural budgetary allocation, including MGNREGA slashed

This comes even as rural India is suffering its worst unemployment crisis in 45 years

Union Budget 2019-20: First time in five years, MGNREGA gets Rs 1,084 crore less

Budget allocation for Ministry of Rural Development gets Rs 5,200 crore extra

Caste discrimination at work place, says ILO report

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Tribals turn violent

MGNREGA activist gangraped in Bihar

Victim dies on way to hospital; she had angered influential landlords of her village

Time to be different

As told to Parliament (December 22, 2021): Over 150 million households have jobs cards under MGNREGA

All that was discussed in the House through the day  

Prioritise and fast-track work on flagship rural schemes: Central report to states

The report is important as the current financial year ends on March 31

Will cash transfer check migration?

India needs to be cautious as experience shows it can backfire

SELF (UN) EMPLOYMENT

Job growth statistics conceal agrarian crisis

NREGA activists who paid with their lives Narayan Hareka (Orissa)

Activist lands in jail for protesting lack of health facilities in tribal district five years ago

People picket police stations; fellow activist claims case is baseless

Rural unemployment in central India: Why Adivasi communities are worst-hit

The focus of MGNREGA has to be re-shifted to employment generation from asset building

75 years of people’s power: How Yerlapady in Karnataka sourced funds to manage grey water

The village made efficient use of MGNREGS funds to construct soak pits

Global unemployment projected to stand at 207 million in 2022: ILO

The COVID-19 pandemic prevented a full and balanced recovery of labour markets in 2021

Union Budget 2020-21: An expert’s guide to rural distress

Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget has all the ingredients to deepen India’s farm crisis

Look back at the decade: 2010-2019

Developments that shaped the world in the second decade of the new millenium

Hope or hype?

CMP: thrust correct, implementation a challenge