-The Hindu Business Line It provides infrastructure and a social safety net, but are there better ways of delivering both? The MGNREGA has been a subject of controversies from its inception. After much of the public dissension died down, the current government again stirred a hornet's nest by sending out what were perceived to be negative signals on this large public employment scheme. Not only has this raised political questions, it has...
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Prof. Jean Dreze, noted economist and former member of the National Advisory Council, interviewed by Mayank Mishra
-Business Standard Reduction in leakages in the Public Distribution System (PDS) is driven by marked improvement in states such as Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Bihar, noted economist and former member of the National Advisory Council Jean Dreze has said in a recent report. In an email interview to Mayank Mishra, he said the National Food Security Act should bring the bulk of the population under a single category with clear entitlements. Edited...
More »How effective are social security and welfare in India? -Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu India's growth story of the last two decades has had one recurring theme: that the pattern of economic growth is accentuating insecurities. Yet, there continues to be a deep divide over whether the gains from growth ought to be ploughed back to achieve social security for everyone. Social security has come to be linked to job benefits, tying it to one's status as a worker in the formal or...
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-The Hindu Kolkata: At a time when the Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal government has a strained relationship with the Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre, a report by the Labour Bureau of India suggested that Bengal's employment rate was on the rise. According to the TMC's official website, the fourth Annual Employment-Unemployment Survey Report revealed that the unemployment rate in 2014 fell to 52 from 74 in 2012-13, the lowest since the...
More »Don’t scrap rural jobs scheme: ILO -D Ravi Kanth
-Livemint.com ILO chief Guy Ryder says India needs to continue strong ‘social policies' such as the MGNREGS to give ‘guaranteed' days of employment to the rural poor As the number of jobless globally crosses 204 million amid slow economic growth and widening inequalities, India needs to continue strong "social policies" such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to provide "guaranteed" days of employment to the rural poor, the...
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