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 …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (nregs) aims to provide 100 days of guaranteed employment to every rural household at the minimum daily wage. But barely four months after its launch, it is running into problems If some states have seen a huge response to it, there have been few …
A paradigm shift appears to be occurring in the way policy-makers in India view agriculture: the focus is moving from increasing food grain production to ensuring farmers' welfare. The shift is evident in the draft National Policy for Farmers, prepared by the National Commission on Farmers (ncf) and submitted to …
"Madhya Pradesh is fast moving away from its 'rich state inhabited by poor people' image, and bring about changes in the industry, infrastructure and social welfare to help improve the living standards of the people and pull itself out of the red". FIRMLY putting behind its cliched image of a …
Imampur village is in Nagar taluka of Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, a rain shadow area. For more than two years now, the agriculture department has been implementing a watershed project here, using egs money. But when dte visited Imampur, it found out that while an entire hillock was covered with continuous …
The Sunderbans are perhaps the last true wild frontier of the Indian Subcontinent and conflict between man and animal is quite common. On the initiative both of the Field Director of the Tiger Reserve and WWF India West Bengal State Office several local youth, who before mostly had been poachers, …
Trade unionists and environment experts from around the world have agreed that environmental rights such as access to clean water, health care and energy be made part of workers rights. The decision was taken during a conference on labour and environment organised by the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi …
• Employment prospects appear bettered in the rural areas than in the cities of India, according to the 60th round of surveys by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), New Delhi • About 43 per cent of the rural population is employed, as compared to 35 per cent in urban …
www.solutionexchange-un.net.in keep Your fingers crossed The recent UN Human development report ranked India 127th in terms of its human development indicators. One doesn't know if this poor performance prompted the UN's India Country Team to come with this interactive website. But education, nutritional security, gender, health and employment are some …
the much awaited report on India's scientific prowess is finally out. The two-year, Rs 2.5 crore effort finds very little to write positively about a country that calls itself a potential knowledge superpower and has begun to bandy about its
the National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill (nregb) 2004 passed by Parliament in August 2005, makes India the only developing country to have legislation ensuring livelihood. Once it is notified, an Employment Guarantee Scheme (egs) will come into being under which one person in each rural household will be assured employment …
sonia's take: While the Centre plans to move the National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill in the current session of Parliament, Congress president Sonia Gandhi recently suggested four amendments to it. She said employment should be guaranteed to anyone who offers to work for the prescribed wage, not merely to the …
A recent move by the Reserve Bank of India (rbi) has highlighted a pressing challenge confronting the society, that of guaranteeing the professional rights of hiv/aids patients. The country's banker announced its hiv/aids workplace policy on J uly 15, 2005, which states: "Employees living with hiv/aids shall be afforded the …
A Rojgar Adhikar Yatra (a journey for employment rights), through some of the 150 districts where the National Food for Work Programme (nfwp) is underway, has found that rampant corruption afflicts the programme. The findings are significant because the nfwp is touted as the forerunner to a comprehensive employment guarantee …
The Parliament will soon enact a National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega). Efforts of the national advisory committee on nrega, the left parties and other well-meaning people have borne fruit. The precise shape of the act is still unclear. But the current state of the debate on the scheme foretells …
In the last decades of the 18th century, a garrulous North American was a conspicuous presence in the working class colonies of Manchester, England. He also frequented working class localities in other parts of England, and in Ireland. This was Thomas Atwood Digges, the scion of a wealthy family in …
"Independence must begin at the bottom. Thus every village has to be self-sustained and capable of managing its affairs'. The whole troubled question of rural employment and migration, discussed substantially by Mahatma Gandhi, is yet to be resolved or addressed meaningfully by successive governments. The National Democratic Alliance (nda) government's …
