India's unemployment rate is likely to decline by as much as 97 basis points by 2028 as the country's economy hits the USD 5 trillion mark, fuelling a rise in employment, a new report said. Unemployment rate -- the percentage of people in the labour force who are without jobs …
India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the largest public works employment project in the world, employing 55 million households in 2010-11. The program places an emphasis on rural poverty reduction, granting rural households a legal right to employment of up to 100 days per year in …
India’s rural employment guarantee is a milestone in social policy and employment creation. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was mandated in 2005 to implement an ambitious, demand-driven employment-creation program to benefit the rural poor through projects that improve agricultural productivity and alleviate land degradation. Guaranteeing the right …
This report analyzes comprehensive 2009 data on government social protection programs in 35 countries in Asia and the Pacific. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) used its Social Protection Index to help assess the nature and the effectiveness of these programs, as well as to facilitate cross-country comparisons. This project based …
A relationship of economic growth with income distribution and poverty reduction has been well researched. This article explores the role played by the balance of class power, the nature of the governance regime, and the policy framework to relook at this old debate and asks how the initial conditions and …
The results of an ongoing survey of slums within the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation — which is almost complete — reveals high figures of unemployment, alcoholism, and drinking water shortage, highlighting the need for inclusive development, as promised by the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a ‘slum-free India’ programme by the Union government. …
The Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act has often been ridiculed as a scheme that has hardly any impact. Many say that MGNREGA workers just 'dig and fill holes,' but scientists from premier science institutions seem to think differently. At a time when the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act …
Implementation of MGNREGS works such as water conservation and harvesting works, drought proofing and renovation of traditional water bodies have contributed to improved ground water levels finds this study conducted by IISc, Bangalore. The study on the environmental benefits of MGNREGS and reduction of vulnerability to climate risks was initiated …
This is the statistical profile of Scheduled Tribes of India done by Ministry of Tribal Affairs. This is done through collection, collation, analysis and dissemination of data and information on various facets of tribals and their socio-economic development from different sources - Census, NSSO, NFHS, SRS, AIES, Government Departments, Budget …
Adding another feather to its cap, Chhattisgarh has been adjudged second among the states in the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme (MNREGS) by successfully completing various construction works under the scheme in last five years. Chief minister, Dr Raman Singh, congratulated the panchayat and rural development department …
Of the 127,942 households in Bhutan 11,049 are poor and 2,322 extremely poor the poverty assessment report (PAR) 2012 states. This means nine percent are poor and two percent extremely poor based on the new total poverty line of a minimum consumption expenditure of Nu 1,704.80 a person a month. …
Senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta has closely followed the issues around coal mining in the past, along with various aspects of the Indian political economy. On 16 April, he screened his documentary 'Coal Curse' in New Delhi. The documentary highlights the micro-level consequences of coal mining in the Singrauli district …
The Comptroller and Auditor-General has found serious lapses in implementation of the UPA’s flagship programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. In its second performance audit submitted to Parliament on Tuesday, the CAG said employment under the MGNREGS declined, funds were being diverted for other use and possible …
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has found a number of flaws in implementation of the government’s flagship programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. In its second performance audit of MGNREGS, from April 2007 to March 2012, it checked 3,848 gram panchayats in 28 states …
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik would unveil the Odisha Agriculture Policy-2013 on Akshay Tritiya on May 13, said agriculture minister Debi Prasad Mishra on Monday. The decline in agricultural growth coupled with the decline in profitability in the agriculture sector in the face of the rapid growth of the non-farm sector …
The performance audit report of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has shown significant decline in per rural household employment generation in the last two years. The per rural household employment has declined from 54 days in 2009-10 to 43 days in 2011-12, the CAG audit report …
This second performance audit of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act by CAG covering the period from April 2007 to March 2012 was tabled in the Parliament recently. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has found a number of flaws in implementation of the government’s flagship …
After the job guarantee scheme played a crucial role in UPA’s reelection the government is working on a plan to reach out to 100 mil lion tribals to ensure remun eration for minor forest pro duce. The government will unveil an ambitious initiative by June, after the Cabinet clears the …
GUWAHATI, April 11: The main objectives of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) are rural development and employment. But so far as Assam is concerned, these objectives have hardly been achieved. Out of the households given job cards under MGNREGA in Assam, only few got 100 days work …
Centre, state govt bear fiscal burden of `8,340 cr Although the industrial promotion policies have put a whopping fiscal burden of Rs 8,340 crore on the state and Central governments from 2007 to 2012, the policies have failed to achieve the desired results and the main objectives of such incentives …
PANJIM: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has urged the people living in the mining belt to explore alternate sources of income rather than totally depend on mining related activities. “We have to stop depending on mining fully. Check for alternate source of income like farming and dairy. It is flourishing now,” …
