The deprivation data of Socio and Economic Caste Census (SECC) is being used to identify the poor households who have not been covered by N...

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

The Narendra Modiled NDA is revamping the skills programmes for rural India, planning to provide interest subsidy to make credit cheaper.

Move will involve convergence of various government schemes, sharing of infrastructure and resources and multi-pronged strategies to addres...

As per figures, 59% of households with kuchha houses are landless-labourers, followed by 55% of those with no literate adult above 25 years.

The SECC data released last week showed that a third of India's rural households are landless and depend on manual labour for an income.

Jaitley said the message from the Socio Economic and Caste Census is clear that "growth and economic reforms help the poor as do targeted s...

The 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...

Releasing the Census, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the data will help in better targeting of government policies.

Many of the NCP’s promises lacked details for instance the manifesto promised that farmers over 65 years would be given a pension.

The 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.

The government is working on a new index based on the consumption pattern of rural landless labour to fix wages under MGNREGA.

During 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.

The recent SC order declaring the acquisition of land in Sahberi village illegal has given hope of renegotiating a better deal to farmers i...

Govt is examining the possibility of turning its two important social sector programmes into universal schemes covering the unorganised sec...

In 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...

Grassroot women, who were once landless labourers or poor housewives, are turning entrepreneurs inspiring scores of women to stick their ne...