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 …
"Only 25 per cent of the NREGS funds have actually reached beneficiaries' "Rs.2,100 crore apparently siphoned off by the executing authorities' "Loot, plunder and pillage of the NREGS funds has been truly participatory' BHOPAL: A study carried out by the Delhi-based Centre for Environment and Food Security (CEFS) has challenged …
Hong Kong's unemployment rate for the three months to June stayed at 3.3 per cent, the same as in the previous two periods, official figures showed Thursday. The figure was unchanged from the February to April and March to May period, the Census and Statistics Department said in a statement. …
GUWAHATI, July 16: The Assam Assembly today witnessed a heated discussion over the underutilization of Sampurna Gramin Rojgar Yojana (SGRY) funds and failure of the Government to get the SGRY's term extended in the State to execute the pending schemes. The Opposition criticized the State Government's failure to extend the …
JORHAT, July 16: As many as 37,500 new jobs have been created for the implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) schemes in the State. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who inaugurated the NREGA schemes for Jorhat district at an official function held at Kalakunj public hall at Borholla in …
Kurnool, July 16: The District Water Management Agency (Dwma) project director, Mr Wilson Babu, issued orders on Wednesday suspending 43 employees for irregularities in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). He also removed 70 masons. Mr Wilson Babu inspected the NREGS office in Atmakur and found …
THE CHIEF MINISTER WRITES Major Gen B C khanduri (retd) , Chief Minister, UttarakhandOur motto: Development, employment, corruption-free Uttarakhand As part of our initiative of getting in the views of chief ministers across all states, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Major Gen B C Khanduri talks about how he has revived the …
Robert J Samuelson WASHINGTON WE'VE been having the wrong discussion about globalisation. For years, we've argued over whether this or that industry and its workers might suffer from imports and whether the social costs were worth the economic gains from foreign products, technologies and investments. By and large, the answer …
Nepal posted economic growth of 4.7 percent in producers' price -- highest in seven years -- in 2007/08, but failed to check rise in unemployment, which went up contrary to general expectations due to a sharp shrinkage in the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing sector, the mainstay of semi and unskilled urban …
DH News Service, Mulbagal: Elected representatives and state machinery should give widespread publicity to development works formulated by the government, opined local MLA Amaresh. He was speaking after inaugurating Bharat Nirman programme at Tayalur in the taluk on Monday. He disclosed that as many as 100 villages in the taluk …
Assam has 19,21,563 registered unemployed persons, with Kamrup accounting for the highest number at 3,43,862 followed by Sivasagar and Nagaon with 1,93,587 and 1,48,392 respectively. The figures include 2,24,125 graduates, 17,209 postgraduates, 2,438 engineering graduates, 3,39,227 higher secondary pass-outs, 6,87,461 matriculates, 17,784 ITI-trainees, 5,659 diploma-holders, 923 agriculture graduates, 353 veterinary …
The Himachal Pradesh government today cleared nine new industrial projects, bringing in additional investment of nearly Rs 1,095 crore in the state, which will mostly be concentrated in the industrial belts of Solan, Sirmaur and Una districts. The proposals were cleared at a meeting of the state-level single window clearance …
Rs 80 then, Rs 45 now, complain villagers Dindigul VILLAGERS who are the beneficiaries of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) are complaining that the wages paid to them have been gradually reduced, much to their disappointment. On Friday last, about 3,000 workers, led by Balabarathi, MLA, resorted to …
The objective of this article is to assess the socio-cultural impacts of camping on the river beach and the white-water rafting development on the river Ganga in Uttarakhand. This paper largely relies on primary survey and secondary data collected from different government departments. Findings indicate some of the major positive …
This article investigates social, political and cultural aspects of sea turtle management led by the Tobian community at Helen Reef in the Republic of Palau. We use participant observation, unstructured interviews and examination of community -based natural resource management literature to compare and contrast the Tobian community with several other …
A new report from the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC) and Redefining Progress finds that the negative social and economic effects of climate change are amplifying the social inequities that already exist among African Americans, low-income, and other marginalized communities. This groundbreaking study, "A Climate of Change: African …
The production of liquid biofuels is rapidly increasing in developing countries, due mainly to the establishment of large-scale biofuel feedstock plantations. This results in potential socio-economic benefits, particularly in terms of agricultural employment, as well as risks,which tend to be context-specific. This paper explores the potential gender-differentiated risks associated with …
Decentralization is broadly defined as transfer of power to the lower level of government (PRIs). It mainly takes three forms, namely political, administrative and fiscal. The legitimacy of the centralized system of governance is on a decline because of various factors including lower participation by people, lack of accountability, weak …
Saeed Khan | TNN Ahmedabad: Gujarat government might have got a reprimand from Centre for not implementing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in a proper manner, but residents in a distant Naroda village of the Panchamahals district found a new pressure tactic to get the scheme implemented systematically. …
Intellectuals write to Manmohan, seeking his intervention Job card should specify payments made and rights of labourers Keep muster roll at workplace Intellectuals and social activists have sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention in implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme and to ensure the safety of activists associated …
The draft report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the working of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was used by many sections of the media to strongly criticise this employment programme. Much of the coverage sensationalised the findings of the report. What did the CAG actually say? Where …
