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More working women, not more babies, key to growthIndia faces a demographic shift with falling fertility rates. Economists are concerned about future economic growth. Instead of financial i...
Farm sector suicides at 10,546 in 2024, second straight yearly decline: NCRB reportFarmer suicides saw a slight decrease in 2024. Over 10,500 individuals in the farming sector died by suicide. Maharashtra recorded the most...
Why affirmative action means more than just quotasAs India prepares for the 2027 caste-based census, the focus shifts to effective affirmative action beyond reservations. The Social Welfare...
Andhra Pradesh plans skill, industry census to map labour profile; socio-economic details of over 1.6 cr households to be collatedIn an effort to fulfill its job creation promise, the Andhra Pradesh government launched its first skill and industry census to analyze the...
Amit Singh Negi appointed additional secretary in PMO, Samir Ashwin Vakil to be SFIO directorIn a significant bureaucratic reshuffle by the Indian government, senior IAS officer Amit Singh Negi from the Uttarakhand cadre was appoint...
View: NRC-CAA move likely to stoke a statistical collapseIf a statistical fog renders data dubious, we can't identify what’s going right or wrong, or fix failures.
Centre should give macro strategy, not micromanage Schemes: N Chandrababu NaiduHighlighting the panic among bank customers, Naidu said: “The ill-drafted provisions of the FRDI Bill like conversion of deposits of indivi...
Of 5 states which get lion's share of NREGS funds, only 2 are poorA break-up of the fund flow under the job scheme between 2013-2016 shows that Andhra Pradesh (AP), Tamil Nadu (TN), UP, Bengal and Rajastha...
Employment in Indian enterprises grows 38%, number of companies 42%The census results are different from those of the household survey, which is also done by the ministry of statistics and programme impleme...
Half of rural India still doesn't own agricultural land: SECC 2011The Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC) finds that a majority of rural households depend on manual labour for income.
Socio Economic and Caste Census data unreliable or incomplete: ExpertsCommissioned by the UPA in 2011, the SECC was meant to record caste, urban poverty and rural poverty, only the last of which has been relea...
Gujarat stands fifth in providing jobs and not first: CongressCiting a Central government report, Parmar claimed that Maharashtra ranks first, followed by Andhra Pardesh, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Gujara...
Employment woes: A deciding factor in LS polls 2014?The latest National Sample Survey Organisation report shows in 2011-12 the labour force's size was between 440 million and 484 million.
When economy grew at 7.5 per cent, wages rose 2.5 per centOver the 12-year period from 1999-00 to 2011-12, rural incomes adjusted for inflation grew by just 24% and urban incomes by 35%.
Annual services survey to be launched soonAt the moment, the only data source for services sector firms is the enterprises survey done by the NSSO once every five years.
- Govt solving migrant labourer problem: Labour Minister
The government claimed that the problem of migrant labourers is being solved gradually through several Bharat Nirman schemes and rural job ...
- Most Indian biz units employ less than 10 workers: Govt
A government census today revealed that less than 2 per cent of business units in India employ 10 or more workers, reflecting poorly on job...
- US poke on child labour jolts India into action
A US government notification on proposed procedural guidelines issued in October on imported goods made using child or enforced labour has ...
- Govt mulls social security tax
The government is examining a proposal to impose a social security tax for the welfare of workers in unorganised sector.
- Bimaru states account for half of child labour
The hindi-belt including Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, commonly known as ‘BIMARU’ states, account for a chunk of the ...