-The Hindu QuARTerly Employment Survey covered 10,593 firms across 9 sectors The All-India QuARTerly Establishment-based Employment Survey, in a report released on Monday, said that the overall employment numbers had increased by 29% from the base year of 2013-14. However, in the first quARTer of this fiscal (April-June 2021), 27% of the establishments surveyed reported pandemic-related retrenchment. The report, released by Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav, covered 10,593 firms that employed more than...

-The Hindu Error is not in data but in government’s judgement: RJD MP Manoj K. Jha The Union government last week told the Supreme Court that the caste data enumerated in the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) of 2011 was “unusable”, but in 2016, the Registrar-General and Census Commissioner of India had informed the Standing Committee on Rural Development that 98.87% of the data on individual caste and religion was “error free”. In its...

-The Hindu Business Line More farmers are coming together but are unclear about how to leverage farmer producer organisations to boost their income Over 180 farmer producer organisations(FPOs) are either in the process of registration or have stARTed functioning in Beed district of Maharashtra. More farmers are joining hands to form FPOs under the Central government’s scheme to promote farmer collectives. However, most of these companies are in the dark about how...

-PTI/ Business Standard As of September 25, the statement said, as many as 1,71,59,743 workers have registered on the portal. Over 1.71 crore workers from the unorganised sector have been registered on the e-Shram portal in the last one month since its launch on August 26, 2021. "Completion of one month of launch of e-Shram portal marks with the registration of more than 1.71 crores workers from the unorganised sector and in unorganised...

-The Hindu Absence of data has created difficulties in providing special facilities to BCs, says Jharkhand CM Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, leading an all-pARTy delegation from the State, met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday to demand caste-based census and handed over a memorandum for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The delegation included leaders of nine political pARTies including the principal Opposition pARTy BJP and ally Congress. “Along with members of the all-pARTy...