-MoneyControl.com The report looks at the present size of the sector, its job generation potential, and also offers recommendations for growth. India’s gig workforce, estimated to be at 77 lakh in 2020-21, is expected to go up to 2.35 crore by 2029-30, according to a NITI Aayog report. The report, titled 'India's Booming Gig and Platform Economy' looks at the present size of the sector, its job generation potential, and also offers...
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Gig economy in India to employ 23.5 million by 2030, says NITI Aayog report -Isha Sahai Bhatnagar
-Hindustan Times Over 20% of the 7.7 million jobs in India’s gig economy are classified as high-skilled jobs and 31% as low-skilled jobs. The remaining 47% are classified as medium-skilled jobs India’s gig economy is estimated to employ 7.7 million people and is set to nearly triple to 23.5 million by 2029-30, a new report by the NITI Aayog said on Monday. The report, ‘India’s Booming Gig and Platform Economy’, is the first...
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-Hindustan Times Nearly every year these parts of the northeast suffer deluge during monsoon months. However, IMD’s analysis of ‘rainfall variability and changes over different states’ for the period between 1989 and 2018 for Assam suggests that monthly rainfall for all monsoon months between June and September is recording a decreasing trend. The flood situation in Assam and Meghalaya continued to remain alarming due to ongoing extremely heavy rainfall in the northeastern...
More »Centre job fund whip on Bengal -Pranesh Sarkar
-The Telegraph Delhi asks state to recover funds spent on 100 days’ job scheme projects where malpractice was ‘found’ by the monitoring team Calcutta: The Centre has asked the Bengal government to recover funds spent on 100 days’ job scheme projects where malpractice was “found” by a national-level monitoring team while making it clear that release of more money under the MGNREGA for 2022-23 financial year may depend on the state’s efforts...
More »Gujarat: ATS DIG-led SIT to probe case against Setalvad and two ex-IPS officers booked for fabricating evidence
-The Telegraph/ PTI Investigation will be carried out by Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) of Ahmedabad Special Operations Group Ahmedabad: A Special Investigation Team (SIT), to be headed by Gujarat ATS DIG, will probe the case against activist Teesta Setalvad and former IPS officers RB Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt who have been accused of abusing the process of law by fabricating evidence to frame innocent people in connection with the 2002 Gujarat...
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