In an effort to fulfill its job creation promise, the Andhra Pradesh government launched its first skill and industry census to analyze the...

In a significant bureaucratic reshuffle by the Indian government, senior IAS officer Amit Singh Negi from the Uttarakhand cadre was appoint...

If a statistical fog renders data dubious, we can't identify what’s going right or wrong, or fix failures.

Highlighting the panic among bank customers, Naidu said: “The ill-drafted provisions of the FRDI Bill like conversion of deposits of indivi...

A 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...

The census results are different from those of the household survey, which is also done by the ministry of statistics and programme impleme...

The Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC) finds that a majority of rural households depend on manual labour for income.

Commissioned 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...

Citing a Central government report, Parmar claimed that Maharashtra ranks first, followed by Andhra Pardesh, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Gujara...

The latest National Sample Survey Organisation report shows in 2011-12 the labour force's size was between 440 million and 484 million.

Over the 12-year period from 1999-00 to 2011-12, rural incomes adjusted for inflation grew by just 24% and urban incomes by 35%.

At the moment, the only data source for services sector firms is the enterprises survey done by the NSSO once every five years.

The government claimed that the problem of migrant labourers is being solved gradually through several Bharat Nirman schemes and rural job ...

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...

A US government notification on proposed procedural guidelines issued in October on imported goods made using child or enforced labour has ...

The government is examining a proposal to impose a social security tax for the welfare of workers in unorganised sector.

The hindi-belt including Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, commonly known as ‘BIMARU’ states, account for a chunk of the ...