Jean Dreze: ‘DUET is just an idea now’
2 years, 5 months ago

Jean Dreze: ‘DUET is just an idea now’

The Hindu  

The eminent economist, Jean Dreze, is well known for his far-reaching contributions to India’s public and social policy. Dreze’s research and deep knowledge of India’s development and economic landscape make him one of the country’s foremost authorities on rural unemployment, gender inequality, child health, famine and hunger. A key participant in drafting the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Dreze recently proposed an urban employment scheme called the Decentralised Urban Employment and Training scheme. The DUET proposal germinated in mid-2020, soon after the nation’s conscience had been stirred by the plight of migrant workers thrown out of work by the COVID-19 crisis and lockdown.

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Bring employment scheme for urban poor, KTR urges Centre
1 year, 6 months ago

Bring employment scheme for urban poor, KTR urges Centre

Hindustan Times  

Hyderabad In his representation to Union minister for urban development Hardeep Singh Puri, KTR said an employment guarantee scheme for the urban poor on the lines of MGNREGS would go a long way in their economic uplift. Telangana industries, information technology and urban development minister K T Rama Rao on Saturday appealed to the Centre to introduce a National Urban …

Union Budget 2023: Did the Govt Meet Welfare Promises & Secure the Marginalised?
1 year, 11 months ago

Union Budget 2023: Did the Govt Meet Welfare Promises & Secure the Marginalised?

The Quint  

For this, we looked at several social-welfare schemes and the outlay numbers in the Union Budget for 2023-24 from MGNREGA, PMGSY, Ayushman Bharat to the PM-Poshan scheme. In the Union Budget 2023, a mere Rs 60,000 crore has been allocated to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Program scheme. Finance Ministry cites two reasons: a) With the impact of …

Patralekha Chatterjee | Ensure growth with jobs: Don’t leave poor behind
1 year, 11 months ago

Patralekha Chatterjee | Ensure growth with jobs: Don’t leave poor behind

Deccan Chronicle  

There is a line in Princeton professor Ashoka Mody’s latest book India is Broken and Why it’s Hard to Fix that is relevant at all times. As Amit Basole, who heads the Centre for Sustainable Employment in Azim Premji University, and works on “jobless growth” in India, pointed out in a recent commentary piece in a national daily: “Cross-country data …

Explained | The Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan
2 years, 4 months ago

Explained | The Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme has rolled out in Rajasthan with the objective of providing economic support to the poor and needy families living in the cities through work to be provided on demand for 100 days in a year. The Congress government has touted it as the country's biggest scheme to give guaranteed …

DUET: A scheme for the urban poor
2 years, 5 months ago

DUET: A scheme for the urban poor

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 24, 2022 18:00 IST An urban employment scheme would seem the simplest and most obvious solution to the country’s alarmingly growing unemployment rate. Furthermore, aside from assisting the unemployed, this would be a useful form of economic stimulus in the post-lockdown period, and help to revive public services.” DUET will work on a system where the government …

A ‘duet’ for India’s urban women
4 years, 1 month ago

A ‘duet’ for India’s urban women

The Hindu  

The COVID-19 crisis has drawn attention to the insecurities that haunt the lives of the urban poor. The government, State or Union, would issue “job stamps”, each standing for one day of work at the minimum wage. The job stamps would be liberally distributed to approved public institutions such as universities, hostels, schools, hospitals, health centres, museums, libraries, shelters, jails, …

The growing clamour for an urban jobs scheme
4 years, 3 months ago

The growing clamour for an urban jobs scheme

Live Mint  

Since April 2020, G.Mathivathanan, a senior bureaucrat in Odisha’s urban development department, has found himself in the middle of a large-scale social experiment. NREGA’s distinctive muster roll-based work assignment remained, but the nature of public works changed, from digging wells and irrigation canals to building stormwater drains and maintaining urban parks. “In Odisha, this will evolve into a permanent urban …

A mindset problem: The Hindu Editorial on rural jobs scheme fund crunch
4 years, 11 months ago

A mindset problem: The Hindu Editorial on rural jobs scheme fund crunch

The Hindu  

It needs no reiteration that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has acted as insurance for landless labourers during crop failures, agrarian crises and periods of a stressed economy. With the ongoing economic slowdown resulting in depressed rural wages and the lack of adequate opportunity to work, the MGNREGS has provided much needed succour and this explains why …

50 lakh people lost job opportunities after demonetisation, says study
5 years, 8 months ago

50 lakh people lost job opportunities after demonetisation, says study

The Hindu  

Since the November 8, 2016 demonetisation, at least five million people lost opportunities to work across the country, while the overall unemployment rate doubled between 2011 and 2018 to 6%, says a 'State of Working India' report published by the Centre for Sustainable Employment of the Azim Premji University that was released on Tuesday. On the demand side, there has …

The shape of an urban employment guarantee
5 years, 9 months ago

The shape of an urban employment guarantee

The Hindu  

India is in the midst of a massive jobs crisis. In Madhya Pradesh, the new State government has launched the “Yuva Swabhiman Yojana” which provides employment for both skilled and unskilled workers among urban youth. What shape an urban employment guarantee programme should take can be widely debated. An urban employment guarantee programme not only improves incomes of workers but …

MGNREGS has raised welfare, brought down inequality, says study
5 years, 11 months ago

MGNREGS has raised welfare, brought down inequality, says study

Live Mint  

At a time when political parties across the spectrum are searching for ways to provide cash transfers to rural and poor Indians, one such policy, started more than a decade ago, has come in for praise from a new study. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme was launched in 2006 to provide 100 days of employment to villagers …

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