During the last one year, India seems to have lost the race in becoming the world leader in terms of development, prosperity and growth thanks to the recession brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. The total number of poor people in the country has swelled and the middle class has shrunk in 2020 in comparison to what was anticipated earlier. A new study by the United States based think tank Pew...
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Declining Female Work Participation in India: What does the Periodic Labour Force Survey Tell Us? -Ellina Samantroy, Kingshuk Sarkar and Sanjib Pradhan
-MainstreamWeekly.net The paper is based on highlights from the Periodic Labour Force Surveys (PLFS) on female labour force participation. The paper has also used the quinquennial rounds of the Employment and Unemployment Surveys. Women’s participation in the Workforce has been continuously declining since 2004-05 though a marginal increase was reported in PLFS 2018-19 with a corresponding increase in self-employment. In this context, the paper tries to understand the employment trends for...
More »How daily wage Workers in India suffered in the lockdown -- and continue to struggle months later -Deepanshu Mohan, Jignesh Mistry, Advaita Singh & Snehal Sreedhar
-Scroll.in Data in Lucknow showed that mean monthly income for labour Work fell 62%, from Rs 9,500 per month in pre-pandemic times to Rs 3,500 per month now. Asked how the lockdown-induced economic crisis affected the lives-livelihoods of daily wage Workers, Rajesh Singh, in his early 20s in Lucknow said, “Since the time of Covid and the lockdown, there has been a severe crisis of employment opportunities in local labor markets. Getting...
More »Centre tells Worker welfare boards not to distribute items, stick to DBT
-The Hindu Aid to be transferred to bank accounts The Centre has ordered State welfare boards for building and other construction Workers (BOCW) not to distribute household and other articles to Workers and instead stick to transferring monetary assistance into their bank accounts. The Labour and Employment Ministry said in a statement on Thursday that it issued an order to States on Monday directing the boards not to distribute articles. The BOCW boards...
More »Niti group Works on new policy to regulate civil society groups, member says for ‘healthy partnership with govt’ -Karishma Mehrotra
-The Indian Express The Working group includes Joint Secretaries of the Financial Action Task Force division of Department of Economic Affairs as well as the Counter Terrorism and Counter Radicalisation Division/Combating of Funding of Terrorist Cell in the Ministry of Home Affairs. A NITI Aayog group is Working on a national policy to regulate civil society organisations following directions from the Prime Minister’s Office. Constituted in September last year, the Working Group for...
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