-GaonConnection.com The half-yearly MG-NREGA National tracker launched by PAEG today highlighted that 90 per cent of the allocated budget has been used up with 5 months of the programme still remaining and the remaining funds available can cover at most 13 days of employment per household till March 31, 2022. More details here. In her opening statement at the joint press conference conducted by Peoples’ Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG) and LibTech...
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The recent QES estimates are unreliable -R Nagaraj and Radhicka Kapoor
-The Hindu The analysis is fraught with caveats and the interpretation of the survey results calls for caution Last week, the MInistry of Labour and Employment released the results of a new Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) for April-June 2021 for the organised (formal) sector. It represents establishments (or units) employing ten or more workers. The surveyed sectors were manufacturing, construction, trade, transport, education, health, accommodation and restaurant, Information Technology/Business Process Outsourcing (IT/BPO),...
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 »Southern states had a higher proportion of indebted farm households in 2019, shows NSO survey
The Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India (NSS 77th Round), which was released recently, informs one about farm households' income in the crop year 2018-19 and indebtedness in 2019 (as on the date of survey), among other things. Prior to the recent report, Land and Livestock Holding Surveys (LHS) and Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) of Agricultural Households used to be...
More »E-Shram needs some hard work to get going -KR Shyam Sundar
-The Hindu The nuances of the unorganised workers’ identity are complex which portal registration may not be able to capture On August 26, 2021, the MInistry of Labour and Employment (MOLE) launched the E-Shram, the web portal for creating a National Database of Unorganized Workers (NDUW), which will be seeded with Aadhaar. It seeks to register an estimated 398-400 million unorganised workers and to issue an E-Shram card. However, it has come...
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