-The Indian Express Across the country, wage employment generated under the scheme has gone up from 32 crore person-days in April - May 2015 to 51 crore person-days in the corresponding months of 2016. Signalling an increase in uptake of MGNREGA work on the ground owing to drought as well as the slow revival of the scheme itself, the person-days generated in the first two months of the financial year has gone...
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Gujarat: 3.57 crore jobless, 3.57% of them want work -Himanshu Kaushik
-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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-PTI The government approved on Wednesday a Rs 6,000-crore special package for textiles and apparel sector to create one crore new jobs in 3 years, attracting investments of $11 billion and generating $30 billion in exports. The measures approved include additional incentives for duty drawback scheme for garments, flexibility in labour laws to increase productivity as well as tax and production incentives for job creation in garment manufacturing. “Over the last few years, apparel...
More »Tackling poverty in India: In building and agri boom, rural wage lift -Hanan Jacoby and Basab Dasgupta
-The Indian Express Real wages have risen across India in the past two decades, but the increase has been especially marked among rural unskilled workers. Three drivers — falling rural female labour force participation, a construction boom, and favourable agricultural terms of trade — help explain why unskilled rural workers fared better than their urban counterparts or workers with more education. Going forward, in the light of lower agricultural prices and...
More »The permanence of temporary workers -Narendar Pani
-The Hindu Business Line The unique needs of those who work in cities even as they maintain homes in the village must be addressed by policymakers Cities bring with them a sense of permanence. Many of them have been around for hundreds of years. Some of their more memorable institutions too tend to have long histories. It is no surprise, then, that most of urban policy takes aspects of a city to...
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