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Explained: What is the new VB-G RAM G Act and how will it replace MGNREGA?A new rural employment law, VB-G RAM G Act, will replace MGNREGA on July 1. It guarantees 125 days of work annually, focusing on infrastruc...- Chhattisgarh CM e-transfers 1804 cr to over 26 lakh beneficiaries under three flagship schemesThe amount was transferred during a function held at the CM's official residence here to mark the death anniversary of former prime ministe...
- Rahul Gandhi to launch financial assistance scheme for landless labourers in Chhattisgarh on Feb 3Nearly 4.5 lakh landless families of MGNREGA labourers, barbers, blacksmiths, priests, etc will benefit from the scheme, for which the stat...
- Government on the job for cleanup of NREG schemeThe deprivation data of Socio and Economic Caste Census (SECC) is being used to identify the poor households who have not been covered by N...
- 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.
- Modi government set to revamp rural skill development programmesThe Narendra Modiled NDA is revamping the skills programmes for rural India, planning to provide interest subsidy to make credit cheaper.
- Mission Antyodaya: NDA government begins work on plan to converge social schemes across ministriesMove will involve convergence of various government schemes, sharing of infrastructure and resources and multi-pronged strategies to addres...
- Landlessness key to rural deprivation, census saysAs per figures, 59% of households with kuchha houses are landless-labourers, followed by 55% of those with no literate adult above 25 years.
- Government plans to scale up skill development program post SEC censusThe SECC data released last week showed that a third of India's rural households are landless and depend on manual labour for an income.
- 8-10% growth, anti-poverty measures needed: Arun Jaitley on CensusJaitley said the message from the Socio Economic and Caste Census is clear that "growth and economic reforms help the poor as do targeted s...
- Rural India lags in education, jobs as many households are landless, finds SECC surveyThe country has a total of 24.39 crore households, putting 73% of them in rural areas. This is the first such survey in more than eight dec...
- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley releases Socio-Economic and Caste CensusReleasing the Census, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the data will help in better targeting of government policies.
- Maharashtra: NCP releases manifesto; announces several freebies if voted to power, but lacks noveltyMany of the NCP’s promises lacked details for instance the manifesto promised that farmers over 65 years would be given a pension.
- Labour Bureau to revise outdated wage, price indicesThe Labour Bureau has woken up to the need to revise wage and price indices, some of which have not been changed for almost half a century.
- Government working on new index to fix rural wagesThe government is working on a new index based on the consumption pattern of rural landless labour to fix wages under MGNREGA.
- Rural prosperity no mirage; real rural wages have grown 6.8% each year in last 4 yearsDuring the period 2000-01 to 2006-07, the real farm wages fluctuated between a high of 117 per day in 2001-02 to 111 per day in 2006-07.
- Landless farm labourers net losers in fightThe recent SC order declaring the acquisition of land in Sahberi village illegal has given hope of renegotiating a better deal to farmers i...
- Health plan success may lead to wider spread for more schemesGovt is examining the possibility of turning its two important social sector programmes into universal schemes covering the unorganised sec...
- Unlocking the potential of rural unorganized sectorIn the rural scenario, the landless forms the bulk of the 'unorganised' sector, eking out a living by working on other people's farms as ag...
- Rural women climb success tree from grassrootsGrassroot women, who were once landless labourers or poor housewives, are turning entrepreneurs inspiring scores of women to stick their ne...
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