-The Times of India Ahmedabad: Of the state's 6.04 crore people, nearly 3.57 crore do not work. Most of those who don't hold a job handle household duties. These numbers emerge from the data of 2011 census. Data indicates that job seekers account for only 3.57% of the 3.57 crore non-working population of Gujarat. Thus the state has the lowest number of job seekers, in terms of percentage, in the country. According to...
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West Bengal: Govt to offer rice at Rs 2 per kg to sex workers, HIV patients
-PTI The state government says that approximately 1 lakh people beneficiaries will be identified from the state. Kolkata: In a first, the West Bengal government has decided to provide rice at Rs two per kg to sex workers and poor HIV patients in the state. “This project is the brainchild of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. For the first time in the country, a state government has decided that sex workers and poor HIV...
More »'Main workers' across religions see a dip -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Among all religious communities, the share of people working as 'main workers', that is, those who worked for most part of the year, declined between 2001 and 2011 while the share of 'marginal workers' - those not getting work for more than six months a year - increased. The share of people who were not working at all, mainly women, increased in all communities. The proportion...
More »Denied your rightful wages? Dial 1800-1800-999 for help
At the Labour Line office of Aajeevika Bureau situated at Syphon Chouraha on Bedla Road in Udaipur, Santosh Poonia said that 12,926 calls were received by his office between August 2011 and March 2016, out of which almost 37 percent were payment-related grievance calls. During the same time-span, 2,008 payment-related cases (as received by the Labour Line office) could be settled. Poonia, who is Programme Manager (Legal Education and Aid...
More »Denial of forest rights spurs conflict in Little Rann -Himanshu Kaushik
-The Times of India Ahmedabad: Salt pan workers, fishing community and maldharis in the Little Rann of Kutch (LRK) should be given their respective rights - salt making, fishing and pastoral land grazing. When denied these rights, locals illegally make salt and graze cattle in the forest area, leading to hassles with the forest department, a study commissioned by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has found. During the 2012...
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