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 …
SALEM: Over 79,000 persons from 64,397 families have been provided work under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Salem district in the current fiscal, Collector J. Chandrakumar has said. Inaugurating a two-day training programme for officials implementing the NREGS here on Tuesday, the Collector said the Central and …
Experts of International Labour Organisation (ILO) on Monday said Bangladesh would not face any major crisis due to global recession in terms of job cut and GDP growth although the world is facing economic challenges due to global meltdown. But they suggested that the country create jobs domestically for its …
MUKESH RANJAN Encouraged by the rich political dividend it reaped in the recently-concluded Lok Sabha elections from the social sector initiatives in the previous tenure, the UPA government is now trying to re-draw the flagship employment guarantee scheme under the NREGA by converging the entire gamut of
Sri Lanka can save USD 400 million annually in foreign exchange by becoming self-sufficient in fish while providing employment to thousands of people, Chairman Maubima Lanka Foundation Ariyseela Wickramanayake told Daily News Business.
* The Planning Commission estimates the urban poor at some 80 million * Figure for the rural poor is 120 million * Over 98 million people migrate from rural to urban centres * The 42nd Indian Labour Conference recommended a scheme for tackling urban unemployment It is early days yet …
June 14: Farmers are finding it difficult to hire agricultural workers as they are attracted towards the money offered in National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). This has affected farming during the kharif season across the district. The situation has become so bad that some of the farmers are hiring …
NARAYAN BARETH FAGI, JAIPUR This was a rathyatra with a difference. The rathyatra moved from one village to another and covered 22 poverty-stricken villages of Jaipur district. It raised the voice of widows, oldage and disabled people while made people aware about the several welfare schemes launched by the government. …
Kappaphycus Alvarezii is a source of livelihood in the Gulf of Mannar region, but with speculation that it might be bio-invasive, the onus lies with the Government of TamilNadu to strike the right balance.
As World Environment Day falls on June 5, Soni Sinha looks at how 70 per cent of work under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act can actually be eco-friendly and benefit local communities in India's poorest districts C K Prahalad states in his corporate management book The Bottom of the …
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi June 11, 2009, 0:37 IST Chartered accountants may soon see their world expanding with the government considering a proposal deploying them in the countryside to audit the finances of sarpanches, block development officers and other officials handling the United Progressive Alliance
BHUBANESWAR: Panchayati Raj Minister Prafulla Samal today said in the Assembly that the Centre had sanctioned Rs 878.83 crore for the State in 2008-09 under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NRENRENREGS) out of which, the State Government had spent Rs 671.82 crore. To a question from Ramesh Chandra Chau …
VIRUDHUNAGAR: A total of 39.217 lakh man days of work has been generated under the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme and Rs. 26.49 crore of wages disbursed in the district during 2008-09. Reviewing the works under the scheme here on Tuesday, the Collector, Sigy Thomas Vaidhyan, said that 3,88,633 families …
Jean Dreze Khunti: In what is seen as a victory for workers under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act here in Jharkhand who had faced hardships because of delayed payment of compensation, as many as 174 of them from 10 villages of Khunti and Murhu blocks have received Rs. 2,000 …
Ranchi, June 8: Giridih showed the way. Khunti is following suit. Within a week of deputy commissioner Vandana Dadel freezing the salary of 500 Giridih officials for tardy progress of projects under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), her Khunti counterpart, Puja Singhal Purwar, today showcaused 11, including six …
The United Nations Industries Development Organizations (UNIDO) is looking at possibilities to launch a series of development projects in the Northern and the Eastern Provinces targeting the agriculture sector. UNIDO has launched a sustainable livelihood program for farmers in the Eastern Province to improve the living conditions of the farmer …
The aim of this paper is to trace the emergence of a subculture of resistance following a strict management regime of the state institution of forestry in Kanha national park of Madhya Pradesh. It illustrates how the state as an institution has been limited in its capacity to protect these …
The aim of this paper is to trace the emergence of a subculture of resistance following a strict management regime of the state institution of forestry in Kanha national park of Madhya Pradesh. It illustrates how the state as an institution has been limited in its capacity to protect these …
