The core objective of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is to promote rural development and reduce poverty by supplementing private employment in the rural Indian economy with public employment. This paper is an attempt to verify the performance of MGNREGA by studying four sample villages from West Bengal. The study has built a social accounting matrix
Srinagar- The government of India on Monday said that the unemployment rate in Jammu & Kashmir has declined in two successive years from 2019 to 2021 Responding to a question raised by National Conference MP Hasnain Masoodi regarding the reasons for increase in “unemployment rate at 22 per cent in the month of October in Jammu
Since 2017-18, the central government’s Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has been compiling data related to employment through the mechanism of PLFS. From this July to June of next year, the survey will be done. According to the latest Annual PLFS reports, the estimated Unemployment Rate (UR) in Jammu and Kashmir was 6.7%
BY DR SUDHIR BISHT As I switched on my television at about 4 pm LAST week, I saw scenes of the large number of protesters being struck with lathis in the agrarian state of Punjab. The live telecast was straight from Sangrur district where the protesters had gathered near Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Bhagwant Mann’s