-The Telegraph Demand for sustainable or organic cotton on the rise, providing an opportunity for the country to excel A few years ago, images of the drying up of the eastern bed of the Aral Sea had shocked millions. It was linked to the widespread growing of unsustainable cotton, backed by the Uzbekistan government, to pocket greater forex earnings and satiate the demands of the global fashion industry. The demand for sustainable...

-Business Standard The budgetary allocation for MGNREGS has already been exhausted, if pending liabilities for the financial year are included Demand for Work under India’s biggest anti-poverty scheme increased to a four-month high in November, government data showed as budgetary support for it is almost exhausted this financial year. More than 22.5 million people applied for Work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in November, the highest since August....

-The Hindu Union Rural Development Ministry asks State government to return Rs.151.9 crore spent on construction of platforms for drying fish and grain, in the name of foodgrain storage yards The Union Rural Development Ministry has served a notice on the Telangana government asking it to return ₹151.9 crore spent under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) on construction of fish/grain drying platforms, which is not permitted under the...

-ThePrint.in Wage ceiling, mobility of lower-end Workers, smaller establishments willfully avoiding registrations among factors that make EPF data flawed indicator, they assert New Delhi: While the government often cites monthly data from the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) — the latest edition of which was released on Friday —  to show that formal sector employment is growing in India, economists say that the data is flawed, prone to inflation and captures only...

-Outlook India How going back to traditional farming practices is changing the lives of Bhil Adivasis in the hilly tribal village of Gamaniya Hameera in Rajasthan. Twenty-eight year old Kailash Nathu, a member of Bhil Adivasi community, recalls a horrific incident from 2018, when like very year, he migrated from his village Gamaniya Hameera, all the way to Gujarat to find Work as a daily-waged labourer. Nathu was not the only villager...