-The Telegraph Thousands of labourers are trafficked out of India every day with promises of more Money and a better life. But the reality is far from it Time: 6 in the morning. Place: office of the National Anti-Trafficking Committee (NATC) in south Calcutta. The NATC is a non-government organisation. There are seven men sitting around a square table. They have landed hours ago from Kuala Lumpur, where they were working as...
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Unspent PM Kisan funds may be used for MGNREGA: Report
-TheWire.in While 7.17 crore farmers have been registered under PM Kisan, only 4.12 crore – those who registered in the first period – will be eligible to receive all four instalments that will be due by the end of March. New Delhi: Some portion of the Money that is likely to remain unspent under PM Kisan could be diverted for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), according to a...
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-Newsclick.in Till October 2019, over 2.5 crore applicant households were turned back when they sought work under the rural job guarantee scheme. It would have seemed natural – indeed, imperative – that, as India grapples with a deadly slowdown, with agricultural economy growing only at around 2% and rural joblessness hovering at a shocking 8%, the government would infuse some energy in the implementation of the rural jobs guarantee scheme (MGNREGA). This...
More »Govt may pump more funds into NREGS to boost rural economy -Saubhadra Chatterji & Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times Many analysts have underlined that the BJP’s below-par performance in the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections reflected concern, among other factors, about the economy, which slumped to a growth rate of 6% in the three months to June 30, the slowest pace in over six years. The government has already spent nearly 80% of its full-year budget for the flagship rural job guarantee programme, top officials said on Friday,...
More »Lending to small units fell in Q1, says MSME report
-The Hindu Business Line Credit risk is building in auto MSMEs, says Pulse report Mumbai: There was a marked slowdown in commercial credit growth in the quarter ending June 2019 along with a marginal deterioration in asset quality, according to the seventh edition of TransUnion CIBIL-SIDBI MSME Pulse Report. The total on-balance sheet commercial lending exposure in India declined to Rs.63.8 lakh crores in June 2019 from Rs.65.5 lakh crores in March 2019....
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