-TheWire.in Latest survey data confirms the increasing importance of livestock activities, which should come as a signal for policy makers. While the latest decennial NSS 77th round Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households (SAS) shows some improvement in the total income of farmers from various sources, a 10-percentage fall in the share of income from crop cultivation has also been reported during this period, which should be a cause for concern to policy...
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Jobs increased by 29% since 2013, says survey
-The Hindu Quarterly Employment Survey covered 10,593 firms across 9 sectors The All-India Quarterly Establishment-based Employment Survey, in a report released on Monday, said that the overall Employment numbers had increased by 29% from the base year of 2013-14. However, in the first quarter of this fiscal (April-June 2021), 27% of the establishments surveyed reported pandemic-related retrenchment. The report, released by Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav, covered 10,593 firms that employed more than...
More »17.1 mn workers of unorganised sector register on e-Shram portal: Labour Min
-PTI/ Business Standard As of September 25, the statement said, as many as 1,71,59,743 workers have registered on the portal. Over 1.71 crore workers from the unorganised sector have been registered on the e-Shram portal in the last one month since its launch on August 26, 2021. "Completion of one month of launch of e-Shram portal marks with the registration of more than 1.71 crores workers from the unorganised sector and in unorganised...
More »Delhi Master Plan 2041: How can planners create a worker-friendly city? -Malavika Narayan, Shalini Sinha & Avi Singh Majithia
-Scroll.in The economic vision laid out in the plan is divorced from the realities of urban Employment in Delhi. In Delhi, the unplanned and the informal are not the exception. A vast section of the city’s residents live in informal settlements, and eight out of 10 workers are informally employed. Insecurity of work and tenure marks their day-to-day existence. Whether it be vending on the streets, picking and sorting waste from people’s...
More »From would-be employed to badly employed—the group that will lead India’s next mass movement -Yogendra Yadav
-ThePrint.in We have for the first time a group that can spearhead a nation-wide movement for Employment. Conventional wisdom holds that unEmployment does not lend itself to political mobilisation in India. You can launch mass movements on generic issues like price rise, corruption or on sectoral issues like caste reservations or farm laws. But you cannot create a similar movement on rising unEmployment, no matter how high the joblessness figure is. A...
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