Category Archives: Employment and Livelihoods
‘After food & shelter, apparel prices rising too’
Prices of ‘kapada’ (clothing) are fast catching up with the trend of rising prices of ‘roti’ (food) and ‘makaan’ (shelter), owing to a spurt in cotton rates, according to a study.
The destruction of construction
By Roger Moody Half-a-million labourers are employed in the natural stone industry of Rajasthan alone, so it’s impossible to calculate exactly how many people toil all over India to supply the stone, cement and bricks of the boom-time construction industry. Yet, India still clings to elementary methods of extraction using bonded labourers, many of them […]
Status of occupational safety and health in India
By Sanjiv Pandita .from InfoChange News & Features, April 2009 India has had legislation on occupational safety and health for 50 years. But regulatory authorities are limited to 1,400 safety officers, 1,154 factory inspectors, and 27 medical inspectors. These numbers are grossly inadequate even for the inspection of formal units that only employ about 10% […]
G-24 supports India on IMF reform
Supporting India’s stand on quota reform in the International Monetary Fund, a G-24 ministerial meeting today called for at least five percentage point shift from advanced economies to emerging ones.
India cautioned developing nations against protracted recovery
India today expressed its concern at rising food prices and warned the developing world to be vigilant of spillover effects of protracted recovery in the global economy, as the revival is taking more time than anticipated.
Farming subsidy set to boost mechanization process
Mechanization of farming activity is expected on a large scale for the first time in the state as the agriculture department has engaged three farmers groups to provide machinery during the current season for harvesting operations.
Less youth getting higher education in India, rues Moily
Union Minister of Law and Justice, Veerappa Moily today said the percentage of youth getting higher education was very less in the country.
Jalkund as Farmers’ New Hope
Necessity is the mother of invention: And it is the need for water that eventually led to the invention of ‘jalkund’, a small tank constructed on hill slopes for irrigation. The tank was developed by the ICAR, Meghalaya, for use in that state which experiences dry weather from November to April.
GDP also Green Domestic Product
We must accept the reality that there is a trade-off between growth and environment. Hard choices need to be made about large projects that are considered central to economic growth, but are detrimental to the environment, said Jairam Ramesh, Union minister of state with independent charge for environment and forests.
Attract young minds to agriculture: Swaminathan
Renowned agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan today said attracting young minds to farming is the key to revive the sagging sector.