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 …
Alternative energy jobs can provide vocations across many sectors of the economy but policy to spark them can take years to develop, U.S. governors told a Senate committee on Tuesday. State green power mandates and regional cap-and-trade plans on emissions have been useful tools in pushing local economies to begin …
The -State forest department has launched a unique policy aiming at income generation of the unemployed people as well as the youth of the state by using various species of local bamboo available in the region. As part of this
SHILLONG, July 13: In a bid to revamp the working of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) and other developmental programmes, the Government is relaunching the scheme on a campaign mode. With regards to this, the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), West Garo Hills have prepared a calendar of …
The CPM and CPI labour arms today planted red flags and stopped work at an under-construction Tata project in Kharag- pur demanding that each landloser family be given jobs at the plant when completed. The Rs 600-crore excavator-manufacturing unit, expected to be operational from October, is coming up on 250 …
MUKESH RANJAN A new avatar of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is on the anvil NREGS-II is aimed at ensuring durable asset creation and taking the programme from its present form of wage employment to self-employment The launch of the refurbished flagship programme of the government will coincide …
Kolkata, July 12 In the name of implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, what is actually happening is virtual looting of public money, according to Mr Yashwant Sinha, BJP leader and former Union Finance Minister.
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The announcement made in the Union budget about a modified National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has evoked a mixed response from experts. It is proposed to ensure convergence of the NREGS with other schemes relating to agriculture, forests, water resources, land resources and rural roads to …
The climate change bill being drafted in the U.S. Senate is unlikely to succeed unless it gives farmers and ranchers a role in locking carbon into the land, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday. Vilsack said a carbon-offset program that pays landowners for practices like tree-planting and reduced tillage …
After the state government imposed a ban on polythene, the union of polythene bags manufacturers and traders said more than 50 industrial units in the business of manufacturing these bags have closed down, rendering more than 15,000 workers jobless.
Mumbai They live in slums, all below the poverty line. Today they have got jobs that will pay between Rs 4,500 and Rs 5, 500 a month, at places such as Kentucky Fried Chicken and Landmark, and at a time employees everywhere live in fear of pink slips. The Brihanmumbai …
While the recession, stock-market fluctuations, job losses, stimulus packages to revive industry and efforts to pull the GDP growth back to 9 percent are making headlines, a crucial subtext stands ignored. Studies at the ground level reveal crucial details of the impact of the global crisis on women, particularly from …
While the recession, stock-market fluctuations, job losses, stimulus packages to revive industry and efforts to pull the GDP growth back to 9 percent are making headlines, a crucial subtext stands ignored. Studies at the ground level reveal crucial details of the impact of the global crisis on women, particularly from …
The American economy lost 467,000 more jobs in June, and the unemployment rate edged up to 9.5 percent in a sobering indication that the longest recession since the 1930s had yet to release its hold.
- A project linking solar power from the Sahara to energy users in Europe and North Africa could create 240,000 German jobs and generate 2 trillion euros ($2,822 billion) worth of power by 2050, a study published on Thursday found. The report by Germany's Wuppertal Institute for Climate for Greenpeace …
A foreign joint-venture company plans to invest up to $3 billion in Pakistan in a copper and gold mine, the venture's chief executive said on Tuesday. Tethyan Copper Co Ltd, a joint venture between Canada's Barrick Gold and Chile's Antofagasta Plc, one of the world's largest copper miners, has been …
Saubhadro Chatterji / New Delhi July 1, 2009, 0:27 IST The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which is believed to have earned political benefits for the Congress in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, will be modified to plug the loopholes and make the officials more accountable. A draft amendment …
Tourists planning an outing at Betla National Park, Palamau, in the next few months may just do well to forgo the trip. For, the wildlife authorities have decided to close the park for three months from July 1 to provide privacy to animals to help them breed. Wildlife officials argue …
