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 …
Focus on agriculture to reduce poverty In the last decade, developing economies in Asia and the Pacific doubled in size, growing over 7 per cent on average. This growth has garnered much attention and plaudits. Yet, 641 million of the world's poorest
Manipur Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh has stressed on proper implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), which was launched in all nine districts of the state. Launching the scheme at Ukhrul district yesterday, the Chief Minister said every individual above 18 years will be provided job for …
At the end of a daylong futile search for job, Mohammad Javed made his way to a temple in Old Delhi's Meena Bazaar in the hope of getting some prasad. Little did he suspect a
an international fact-finding mission, which visited Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district recently, has expressed concern over the displacement and loss of livelihoods of tribal communities due to construction of special economic zones in the district and expansion of the Krishnapatnam port. The mission comprised civil society representatives from Thailand, Malaysia, the …
WITH the formal inauguration of the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on the outskirts of Hyderabad on March 14 by United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi, India will have its first greenfield airport. Developed on 5,500 acres (1 acre = 0.4 hectare) in Shamshabad at an initial cost of Rs.2,478 crore, …
To create awareness among the rural masses on the benefits of the National Rural Employment Assurance Act (NREGA), an awareness meeting was organized by the Biswanath Civil Administration yesterday at the SDO (c) office Conference hall with the lat mondals and gaon burahs under Biswanath subdivision Vishal Solanki, SDO (C), …
The Kerala government will depute a high-level task force with Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu P. Sainath, Aruna Roy (both Magsaysay Award winners), and developmental economist Jean Dreze as members to evaluate the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the State and submit recommendations. This was …
TO BE sure, there are a number of problems with the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) that provides a universal, selftargeting guarantee of 100 days of employment to every rural household in 596 districts of India. In a four-part series, this newspaper highlighted sharp regional contrasts …
Kurseong, March 23: Some residents of Ambootia Tea Estate, 6km from here, have formed a farmers' club and tied up with Nabard in a bid to solve the unemployment problem that is plaguing the hills. The Ambootia Farmers' Club, formed on February 16, is the first of its kind in …
Community Score Card (CSC), a new technique among the available social accountability tools, was used in Rajasthan recently to assess the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Sirohi district. The CSC was put to use for the first time in the State by CUTS Centre for …
Vale, the Brazilian mining group, is building technical schools in Brazil and placing recruitment advertisements overseas, in a further sign of the scarcity of geologists and engineers among the world's miners in recent years as rising commodity prices have driven growth in the sector. Vale plans to spend $59bn on …
The stage is set for universalising the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and extending it to all the 596 rural districts in the country from April 1. AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday led the Congress MPs' delegation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the ways and means …
Mizoram Rural Development Minister H Vanlalauva has held both the Central and State governments responsible for failing to fully implement the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in the State. While the scheme was carried out for about only 20-30 days in Lunglei district and just for 14 days in …
Given its Tata heritage, Tata Motors is a champion of responsible business. Recognising the brand building capabilities of Corporate social responsibility (CSR), Tata Motors formed a CSR Committee in January 2006 comprising the Managing Director Ravi Kant and other senior executives of the company. "Our CSR activities are largely dependent …
Contrary to official claims, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) say that poverty has increased in Pakistan since 2004 and the new government should take the issue seriously. Sources told Dawn on Thursday that the banks planned to offer $600 million conditional funding to the new government …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is to be implemented at a cost of nearly Rs 151 crore in West Godavari district from April. The district administration has worked out an action plan to implement the scheme. Already 3.89 lakh workers were registered under the scheme. Works like water …
At the time of destructive floods, the distress of affected people attracts attention but, unfortunately, as soon as the flood waters recede they are forgotten. A recent visit to several flood-affected villages of Bihar made it very clear that the flood-affected people are still suffering. March 2008
Presenting the 2008-09 budget, West Bengal Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta on Monday announced the creation of a Rs.100-crore Special Assistance Fund for people who give their land for setting up big industries. He said that employment creation was the main objective of the budget and if realised the measures would …
Unemployment is a common global economic malady, the level of which distinctly varies between developed and underdeveloped nations with Keynesian involuntary and frictional type in respect of developed nation and structural type in regard to an under developed country like India which attributes to maximum growth of population and insignificant …
