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3 out of 4 workers in India fall in vulnerable employment category: ILO

-Business Today Apparently it is not just jobless growth that we should be worrying about. Rather, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO), a far greater concern is the fact that vulnerable employment is on the rise. According to the World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2018 report, while the global unemployment rate is expected to stabilize at around 5.5% over the next couple of years, the...

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State lags behind in education status, reveals ASER report -Pragya Pallavi

-The Pioneer Ranchi (Jharkhand): Annual Status of Education Report (ASER-2017) released on Tuesday covering 28 districts of 24 States on ‘Beyond Basics’- A survey of rural India youths, presented a gloomy picture of Jharkhand on a few basic parameters in comparison with the districts of Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh. The survey based on 4 As (Activity, Ability, Awareness, Aspirations) covering the age group 14-18 years, Jharkhand lags behind in enrollment...

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Ignore Rural Anger at Your Own Peril -V Rajagopal

-TheWire.in The Gujarat election results are a wake-up call for the key political parties, as they gear up to draw strategies for the ensuing elections to three states. The years 2018 and 2019 are going to be hectic with elections scheduled for some state assemblies and to  parliament. The issues that confront the citizens are many, ranging from financial to livelihood, farm operations to health and education to rural development. The performance...

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Policy Brief - The Key to Resolving Straw Burning: Farmers' expertise

-Maastricht University The Policy Brief entitled 'The Key to Resolving Straw Burning: Farmers' expertise' was produced under the project Responsible Innovation in Biogas in India, which was funded by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO) and executed at Maastricht University. In the brief, the researchers call for the following policy actions: * Establish comprehensive working groups to engage with issues of straw burning, air pollution, agricultural practices and industries. * NOTAbly, expertise on...

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Too few FIRs in Delhi & Gujarat for fake currency notes seized during 2016, indicates NCRB data

In a country where inter-departmental coordination hardly takes place in the government, a joint exercise undertaken by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) is bearing fruits. The NCRB has started coordinating with the RBI for collection and sharing of Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) data. The new tables, which have been introduced in the NCRB's annual publication on crime, reveal that although the...

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