The increase in organized sector employment (i.e. in establishments employing 10 or more workers) in the second quarter was much higher as compared to that in the first quarter of 2017-18. The seventh round of the Quarterly Report on Employment Scenario in selected sectors (as on 1st October, 2017), which was released in March this year, confirms this. The Labour Bureau’s latest report says that during the period 1st April to...
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National Forest Policy Draft 2018 Takes One Step Forward, Two Steps Back -Sushant Agarwal
-TheWire.in Unless consumer preferences shift to climate resistant crops, goals associated with the policy won’t materialize. On March 14, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) uploaded a draft of the National Forest Policy 2018, three decades years after the last such policy. The draft appears to be an attempt to shift the approach towards forestry in India &NDAsh; specifically, from a local community- and ecology-centric approach emphasised in the...
More »Doctor Modi's Cure for Fake News is Worse Than the Disease -Siddharth Varadarajan
-TheWire.in When a government and ruling party that themselves peddle disinformation now say they want to fight fake news, it is time for the media to batten down the hatches and prepare for the worst. In the name of fighting fake news, the Narendra Modi government is laying a minefield for journalists and media houses that threatens what remains of the free press in India. On MoNDAy, the information and broadcasting ministry spelt...
More »Govt botched up NREGA: CAG
-OrissaPost.com Bhubaneswar: The state government lost its direction on execution of the biggest rural employment generation scheme&NDAsh;Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). This was indicated in a Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report on local bodies for the year ended March 2017. Briefing media about the findings of the audit report, Accountant General of Orissa Madhumita Basu said, “The per annum average income of the households (HHs) in...
More »MGNREGA wage rates have not risen for 9 states including Bihar, Jharkhand & U.P.
-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 1 April, 2018 Hours after NREGA Sangharsh Morcha wrote an open letter (please click here to access) to the Rural Development Minister demanding notification of revised MGNREGA wage rates for 2018-19, the Ministry issued the employment guarantee act wage rates for the new financial year. Wage rates have not increased for some of the poorest states of the country &NDAsh; Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar...
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