-The Hindu Business Line TN, Kerala, M.P. ranked on top, according to data The Ministry of Commerce and Industry data show that 230 out of the 373 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in India are operational and have provided employment to as many as 20 lakh people. In Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Punjab and Chandigarh all approved SEZs are operational while among four States which have more than 50 approved SEZs, Tamil Nadu tops the chart...
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No rise in working women despite high literacy levels: ICRIER study
-The Hindu Study cites combination of socio-economic factors such as marital prospects. A rise in literacy levels among women has failed to translate into an increase in the number of working women due to a combination of socio-economic factors such as the importance of education for improving marital prospects as well as higher prestige attached to households which keep women out of labour force, according to a new research. A study authored by...
More »Elections 2019: India Shining 2.0 surfaces in Rural India -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com With barely a few months to go for 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the question across political party lines is: what can really be done now, and quickly? New Delhi: When residents gather around the fire on foggy winter evenings in Rampura, a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district, the conversation often veers toward the declining fortunes in agriculture. Take 27-year-old Pushpendra Singh, who completed his master’s degree in commerce in 2016,...
More »'One family, one job' scheme in Sikkim -Rajeev Ravidas
-The Telegraph The scheme envisages providing Jobs to a member of every family who does not have a government job Gangtok: The Sikkim Assembly on Thursday approved creation of over 16,000 temporary Jobs in different departments as part of the government’s ‘one family, one job’ scheme announced by chief minister Pawan Chamling earlier this year. The scheme envisages providing Jobs to a member of every family who does not have a government job. “We...
More »How The Modi Government is Killing Off MGNREGS -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in Funding is not keeping pace with demand, and delays or vanished dues are discouraging job seekers in these times of extreme rural distress. Here is a little known but chilling fact about the rural job guarantee scheme, MGNREGS: between April and mid-December this year, about 1.28 crore people who demanded Jobs were turned back. This refusal to give work has been happening every year but it has increased after the Modi...
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