-The Telegraph About 20 Workers would come to the Work site every day, get photographed for attendance carrying basketfuls of soil or digging the earth, and then leave without doing any real Work New Delhi: This summer, Gaudsahi village under Kapileswarpur gram panchayat in Odisha’s Puri district began renovating the village pond under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. About 20 Workers would come to the Work site every day, get...

-The Hindu Business Line A recent digital literacy programme in rural Uttar Pradesh shows that eliminating gender disparity in digital literacy can Work wonders for the inclusion of women in the Workforce  Kamla says she turned from helper to co-owner in her husband’s grocery shop the day he handed over his smartphone to her. That day, like every other, he had kept shop till Kamla joined him after completing her morning household...

-TheWire.in If governments wish to raise employment levels in formal sector enterprises and prepare school leavers for the world of Work, it is critical that systems of internships and apprenticeships, formally approved and mandated, are encouraged.  In the vast majority of low-income and middle-income countries (LICs/MICs), most students at the secondary/higher secondary level are engaged in general academic education, not vocational education or training. For such students, the transition to the world of...

-TheIndiaForum.in The uncritical tone of the NITI Aayog’s recent report on the gig economy in India and its belief that platformisation will create an inclusive Working environment is, at best, credulous, and, at worst, a deliberate attempt to ignore the erosion of Workers’ rights, security, and welfare. In August 2022, more than a hundred Workers in Bengaluru Working for online food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy went on strike. Echoing central trade...

If you are not serious about non-communicable diseases, then this single piece of information is enough to scare you -- during 2019, almost two-third of deaths in India occurred due to such diseases i.e., NCDs.   The newly released report by World Health Organization shows that out of the total deaths in 2019 in our country, about 28 percent were caused by cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), 10 percent by cancers, 12 percent by chronic...