Economy has become a major cause of concern for the new government with GDP dropping to 5.8 per cent in the last quarter of the 2018-19, according to NSSO figures. Overall GDP for last financial year has been estimated at 6.8 per cent against a target... read more

These conversations are significant not least because they offers an insight into a group marginalised on account of caste as well as gender. read more

Many said they voted on issues that ranged from national security to unemployment and for parties that would give them better living conditions. read more

Policy makers must examine income and employment guarantee schemes to secure an India free from poverty read more

For Smart Cities, it takes about 15-18 months to set up a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) and it takes another 18 months to get the project consultant, said Union minister of housing and urban affairs Hardeep Singh Puri. read more

He mocked Gandhi’s promise to grant central university status for Patna University if the UPA came to power at the Centre after the Lok Sabha polls. “I would like to ask what prevented the UPA government from granting central university status for Patna... read more

Taking a dig at the Centre, Chidambaram claimed that when the government revised the GDP figures it did not realise that the unemployment figures also got revised. read more

It is likely to unveil a series of employment generation data collected from industries and households, as well as small businesses that have taken out Mudra loans from the government, said three government officials, requesting anonymity. read more

The State of Working India 2018 highlights important aspects of India’s labour market. read more

This lack of distinction explains the decline in women’s workforce participation rates. The decline reflects a shift from paid to unpaid work. read more

The biggest reason for this is the employment-income mismatch in agriculture. While the share of agriculture in India’s GDP has been coming down, its share of employment has been relatively constant. read more

About 700 million Indians, more than twice the population of the US, are not part of the workforce and their contribution at home is not recorded in the national income. read more

Growth in public sector jobs is a useful metric to gauge the usefulness of reservations in solving employment problems of the social groups who either enjoy reservations or are demanding it. read more

The special edition of the monthly journal ‘Yojana’ will carry details of the jobs or avenues for self-employment created by various government ministries and departments in the past four years. read more

Ravi Shankar Prasad said the IT ministry is working with other departments like Niti Aayog on various aspects of advanced technologies, and is also engaged with software body Nasscom on skill development initiatives. read more