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 …
Ravish Tiwari New Delhi: The ambit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has been significantly expanded by allowing under it work done on private land belonging to small and marginal farmers to create assets. Small and marginal farmers are those with landholding of less than two hectares. Together, they …
Zilla Panchayat President M Srinivas has urged the government to declare the district as drought-hit and announce to a special package, as it has not received rain. Addressing the mediapersons here on Wednesday, Srinivas said, rain has continued to play truant in the district, bringing sowing activities to a grinding …
NEW DELHI: Aiming to make the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna more effective and boost the rural economy, the government has decided to restructure the scheme under a new nomenclature National Livelihood Mission. The Rural Development Department aims to provide self-employment under the scheme in the rural areas by bringing each …
Economic growth is supposed to deliver prosperity. Higher incomes should mean better choices, better lives, an improved quality of life for us all. That, at least, is the conventional wisdom. But things haven't always turned out that way.
Admitting there were some flaws in its flagship rural employment programme including irregularities in payment of wages, the government said Friday steps were being taken to remove them.
- Handicraft to stop tribals from joining Maoist ranks SHASHANK SHEKHAR Baskets of hope Dhanbad/Bokaro, July 30: The forest department has embarked on a bamboo plantation drive with the aim of generating employment for tribals of Naxalite strongholds in Dhanbad and Bokaro districts so that they aren
The environment won a temporary reprieve in the recession as Americans slammed the brakes on one of their favorite pastimes: consuming stuff. But while the austerity brought by a battered economy has cut pollution, it has also hit investment in green technology, which could damage the environment in the longer …
Nagercoil: The Government has spent Rs.2.51 crore to pay wages under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in the last two months for 3,40,696 persons, said Collector Rajendra Ratnoo. According to the Collector, there were 99 village panchayats and of that works were going on under this scheme in …
Pakistan is poorly endowed with forests, covering 5.2 percent of the total landscape with 2.1 deforestation rate annually. The forest resources are not only important for the environmental services but carry immense importance for the local population for their livelihood. These were the views expressed by Dr Babar Shahbaz, visiting …
Key US lawmakers on Friday defended their plans to establish a system capping greenhouse gas emissions, disputing attacks from Alaska Governor Sarah Palin that climate change legislation in Congress would destroy jobs and hurt the economy. In an op-ed article in Friday's Washington Post, Democratic senators Barbara Boxer and John …
The coastal district of Balasore too has not been spared of the migration curse. If lack of job opportunities was the reason for the exodus in KBK region, floods and resultant poor agricultural activities are the reasons in this flood-prone district. Despite the claims of proper implementation of national Rural …
Teena Thacker Every year, tribal children from various districts of Rajasthan migrate to Gujarat to work in the Bt cotton fields. However, this year they have stayed back. Reason: they have illegally been working under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) scheme using the job cards of their parents. …
FEW employment generation programmes have created as much buzz as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The scheme is aimed at benefiting BPL households in rural India by enabling at least one member of such households to find guaranteed employment as unskilled labour for at least 100 days in a …
Maulik Pathak / Ahmedabad July 27, 2009, 0:07 IST THE GUJARAT government claims it already pays a minimum wage of Rs 100 to workers under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP). But in Randheja, a village a few kilometers from Gandhinagar, workers have abandoned work under the NREGP after …
Goa government scraps its SEZ Policy 2006, even though the state is plagued by scarce investment and rising unemployment It took the Goa government just three minutes to rescind a decision taken on 5 June 2006 and take back the 3.894 million sq metres of land allotted for 18 special …
The inevitable displacement of indigenous people due to transformation of their habitats for use in industrial projects is one of the consequences of the Indian economic growth story. Many issues abound
R Krishna Das / Raipur July 24, 2009, 0:02 IST WHEN Keshav Tandon, of Banarasi village in Raipur district, announced the launch of a project to deepen two village ponds, he thought it will be a showpiece for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in the state. For, Banarasi has …
DINDIGUL: A total of 450 projects, including 128 supply channels, 192 tanks, one small irrigation works, three ooranis and 126 road works, were carried out under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in 2008-09, according to Collector M Vallalar. He was inspecting desilting of Kongan tank under NREGS at G. …
Agartala: Designed on the lines of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the Tripura Government would on Friday launch a special employment guarantee scheme for the urban poor. "Rs 30 crore would be spent initially to benefit 48,000 families in the towns of the state including 22,000 at Agartala," …
