-Business Standard/ Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) It is logical to believe that Employment conditions in India have deteriorated quite substantially during 2019-20. Economic growth has slowed down and investments show no sign of picking up. Outlook for the economy in 2020-21, and therefore also for Employment, is also getting increasingly difficult by the day. With capacity utilisation remaining very low at around 70 per cent, the prospects of an...
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Govt should tackle the demand side instead of dealing with the supply side of the economy -Yashwant Sinha
-The Indian Express This government is barking up the wrong tree. First of all, it is solely responsible for the present slowdown. Second, it has no understanding of what has caused the problem. Third, therefore, it is flailing its arms in all directions except the right one and causing more pain. I have often been criticised for being critical of the present regime, even by people near and dear to me. One...
More »How Pervasive Are Modi Govt Cutbacks on Job Schemes -Bharat Dogra
-Newsclick.in Directly or indirectly, the government seems uninterested in creating jobs. At a time of widespread and intense concern about the worst unEmployment situation in 45 years and all the distress and discontent that accompanies it, one would have expected the Union government to put job-creation at the top of its priority-list. One of the most obvious and direct ways to do this would be to expand its own schemes and programmes...
More »Disabled and extremely poor -Vani S Kulkarni & Raghav Gaiha
-The Hindu There is a link between disability, loss of Employment and impoverishment in rural India Of the world’s population, 15% live with some form of disability. Are disabilities associated with economic hardships through loss of Employment and consequent impoverishment in rural India? For lack of more recent data (the NSS does not cover disabilities) we tried to answer this question by using the two rounds of the India Human Development Survey...
More »Rajasthan tops in creating man days of rural Employment under MGNREGA: Sachin Pilot
-PTI Pilot also made several other announcements including those for opening 50 retail outlets for the sale of bio-diesel and building several roads in the state. JAIPUR: Rajasthan has generated the largest number of man days, totalling 30.03 crore, of paid Employment under the MGNREGA scheme among all states in the country, said Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot. Pilot made this revelation in the state assembly late Thursday night while replying to a...
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