Understanding the immediate priorities to empower women in the Indian agriculture sector
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Understanding the immediate priorities to empower women in the Indian agriculture sectorBy Nitin Chaudhary, ET CONTRIBUTORS
Last Updated: Apr 03, 2021, 11:32 AM IST
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Presently, the agriculture sector employs 80% of all economically active women in India, which includes 48% of the self-employed farmers and 33% of the agriculture labour force.
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Despite women’s participation as self-employed entrepreneurs in agriculture and allied sectors accounting for about 25%, it is saddening that for most part, they are not viewed as farmers
The Government of India in its Economic Survey in 2018 noted that the agricultural sector is undergoing feminization, a term used to indicate how increasingly a large number of women are taking up roles as entrepreneurs, cultivators and labourers. Presently, the agriculture sector employs 80% of all economically active women in India
Attacking BJP government led by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal in Assam, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and Congress senior observer for state assembly polls Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday said that the BJP has failed to deliver on 2016 poll promises. They had promised to seal Bangladesh border, construct Expressways on both sides of Brahmaputra river and raise daily wages of tea garden workers, but they didn t. BJP ka nasha utar gaya hai. They have failed to deliver promises, said Baghel in a release. The Chhattisgarh Chief Minister claimed that BJP is confused and Assam is going to slip out of their hands. They (BJP) don t have any agenda. They should first decide whether Sarbananda Sonowal or Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma has been the Chief Minister for the last five years in Assam. BJP is confused and Assam is going to slip out of their hands, the Congress leader statedn.
Currently, the company has more than 40,000 gig workers on its platform, of which over 35,000 are present in India. Of the total base of gig workers on the platform in India, more than one-third are women working as beauticians and massage therapists, Urban Company co-founder Varun Khaitan told.
Ministry in talks for skilled overseas jobs for Indians
February 11, 2021
About 3.7 million jobs have been identified in 15 countries×
Cabinet note for amending the Apprenticeship Act, 1961, to enhance employment opportunities, to be ready by April 2021, says official The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has identified job opportunities for about 3.7 million skilled Indian workers abroad in the blue- and grey-collared categories.
The jobs are in 15 countries including the Gulf, the US, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore and New Zealand and Australia, over the next five years. The Ministry is trying to collaborate with its foreign partners to lay down mutually acceptable parameters for the same, a government official has said.
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PMKVY 3.0 envisages training of eight lakh candidates over the scheme period of 2020-2021, with an outlay of Rs 948.90 crore.
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The third phase of the government s flagship skilling scheme Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY 3.0) will be launched on Friday in 600 districts across all states of the country. PMKVY 3.0 envisages training of eight lakh candidates over the scheme period of 2020-2021, with an outlay of Rs 948.90 crore. Spearheaded by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, this phase will focus on new-age and COVID-related skills, an official statement said. Union Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Mahendra Nath Pandey will launch the scheme.