A road map to strengthen India’s rural economy | Analysis
4 years, 7 months ago

A road map to strengthen India’s rural economy | Analysis

Hindustan Times  

The coronavirus disease -induced pandemic has thrown up several socioeconomic challenges for India, the most critical being how to revive the economy. Come up with a plan to encourage a cluster of the cottage, small and medium enterprises in villages, mofussil towns India has an estimated 497 million workers, of which about 94% work in the unorganised sector. There is a strong belief that many migrant labourers may not return to their workplaces due to uncertainties, apart from the requirements for the harvest season in rural areas. It seems like the coronavirus has pushed a reset button to ensure seamless reverse migration from urban cities to rural areas, and we, if we so desire, have an opportunity to capitalise on this situation. In the effort to jump-start the economy, mainly the micro, small and medium enterprises sector, we could try and integrate these reluctant-to-return migrant workers into India's rural economy.

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Consumer goods companies go full throttle on rural hiring
1 week, 4 days ago

Consumer goods companies go full throttle on rural hiring

Live Mint  

New Delhi: India’s consumer goods companies are on a hiring spree to cater to the emerging clout of the rural buyer, who has been the sector’s saving grace this year amid rising material costs, shrinking margins, and increasing competition. Mumbai-based Godrej Consumer Products, for instance, has increased hiring in rural areas alongside introducing smaller and more affordable packs across key …

Where did India's population grow, and where did it shrink?
1 month, 1 week ago

Where did India's population grow, and where did it shrink?

India Today  

Over the past three decades, India’s population has experienced remarkable changes, with growth and decline playing out across the country in fine detail. Smaller towns and peri-urban regions — non-urban landscape that surrounds or is adjacent to a metropolitan area — have also grown, reflecting the spillover effects of urbanisation Urban areas have seen significant growth, with large clusters around …

India’s cities, expanding hubs of precarious employment
2 months ago

India’s cities, expanding hubs of precarious employment

The Hindu  

Abhishek is just 25 years old. Precarious nature of work in urban India In recent decades, there have been fundamental shifts in India’s urban workforce and city development. Moreover, 92% of the 61 million jobs created after the economic liberalisation of 1991 were informal, indicating the precarious state of employment in India’s labour market. Structural imbalances favour organisations that control …

Navigating unemployment challenges: Insights and strategies
8 months, 1 week ago

Navigating unemployment challenges: Insights and strategies

Hindustan Times  

Unemployment remains one of the most pervasive and multifaceted issues plaguing India's socio-economic landscape. Structural bottlenecks and informal economy dominance: India's economic structure, characterised by a large informal sector and bureaucratic red tape, stifles formal job creation. Flexible labour regulations can encourage formal employment, attract investment, and promote job creation, while ensuring adequate social protection for workers. Promoting export-oriented industries …

Turning the spotlight on the urban poor
9 months ago

Turning the spotlight on the urban poor

The Hindu  

The India Employment Report 2024 by the Institute for Human Development and International Labour Organization poses questions on the trickle-down effect of benefits to the working class in the backdrop of a 5.4% average real economic growth, from 2015-16 to 2022-23. Hence, an analysis of income and employment trends of slum dwellers would reveal the prospects of economic mobility and …

Sadhguru Writes: Urbanise Rural India To Stem Migration
1 year, 8 months ago

Sadhguru Writes: Urbanise Rural India To Stem Migration

ABP News  

Sadhguru writes: Some time ago, I was in Mumbai. If ten million extra people come into each of our cities, no one can live well in these places. If we want to stem migration, we must urbanise rural India. There must be at least eight to ten million 15-16-year-olds in the country right now who think they are educated but …

Why India Needs to Expand Export Quality Skilled Manpower - News18
1 year, 11 months ago

Why India Needs to Expand Export Quality Skilled Manpower - News18

News 18  

Managing an ever-burgeoning population is a Herculean task. As per the National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2015, the target was to impart various types of skills to 40 crore people by 2022. The major challenges to skill development, as also pointed out by the NITI Aayog, involve mapping skill requirements sector-wise and geographically; making vocational training in school …

The rise of rural manufacturing
2 years ago

The rise of rural manufacturing

The Hindu  

There is growing evidence to suggest that the most conspicuous trend in the manufacturing sector in India has been a shift of manufacturing activity and employment from bigger cities to smaller towns and rural areas. This study investigated the urbanisation of the Indian manufacturing sector by “combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors and found that manufacturing plants in …

Can 'Kantara' kindle the hope of a rural renaissance?
2 years, 1 month ago

Can 'Kantara' kindle the hope of a rural renaissance?

Live Mint  

Kantara: A Legend, a Kannada movie made with a big heart, conviction and a modest budget of ₹16 crore is a global box office hit. India’s MSME sector is still recovering from demonetization followed by a sudden GST burden and then covid lockdowns, but we could still hope for a Kantara-inspired rural renaissance. Here’s how: Think global: If a small …

Digitally empowering micro -entrepreneurs
2 years, 3 months ago

Digitally empowering micro -entrepreneurs

Hindustan Times  

Throughout history, entrepreneurs have been regarded as heroes. What began as a necessity is now a source of personal income, business, and community growth for India's 6.3 crore micro- and nano-enterprises, which employ over 11 crore people. These small businesses were able to gain clients with the help of technology, so they hired a small team of about four to …

Industrialisation in Tamil Nadu’s development
2 years, 7 months ago

Industrialisation in Tamil Nadu’s development

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu, along with Kerala, is noted for its relatively inclusive development path. Unlike Kerala, Tamil Nadu’s development trajectory however draws upon a dynamic manufacturing and high-end services sector for its sustenance. According to the State Human Development Report released in 2017, Tamil Nadu, along with Kerala, derives the least share of State income and employment from agriculture among major …

With rising unemployment, RSS feels need to harness work opportunities
2 years, 9 months ago

With rising unemployment, RSS feels need to harness work opportunities

The Hindu  

As unemployment is hitting the roofs, the highest decision making body of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in its all India representatives meeting in Ahmedabad has flagged the issue and stressed to promote work opportunities to make the nation self-reliant. The three-day all India Representatives meeting held in Ahmedabad passed the resolution to “emphasize that the entire society has to play a …

A hazy picture on employment in India
2 years, 11 months ago

A hazy picture on employment in India

The Hindu  

The two important indicators of structural transformation in any economy are rates of growth and changes in the structural composition of output and the workforce. Also, the unemployment rate in the female labour force in rural areas is far lower than the male labour force, whereas the opposite holds true in urban areas. This is despite the fact that the …

How India's Northeast can be a zone of sustainable industrial development
3 years ago

How India's Northeast can be a zone of sustainable industrial development

Firstpost  

In the last two decades, economic growth in the Northeast has been satisfactory with an annual growth rate in excess of 8 percent. According to a CII-PWC report, Innovation: Changing the MSME Landscape, “Statistics are already emerging on the increasing importance of innovation and its scale and scope among the country’s firms today.” Also, a National Knowledge Commission of India …

Data | Jobs increase in rural India in September
3 years, 2 months ago

Data | Jobs increase in rural India in September

The Hindu  

In India, 8.5 million new jobs were gained in September 2021, increasing the total employment to 406.2 mn from 397.8 mn in August, according to CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey. There was a significant improvement in the quality of employment as salaried jobs increased in both rural and urban regions. Click to remove AMP mode High rural share As many …

Liberalization Neglected Rural Growth for 30 Years. India Can No Longer Afford to Do That
3 years, 5 months ago

Liberalization Neglected Rural Growth for 30 Years. India Can No Longer Afford to Do That

News 18  

The foundation for liberalization, privatization and globalization was put in place 30 years ago in July 1991, and this brought in much-needed resilience and vibrancy in the Indian economy. Attracting investments in rural and backward areas through special incentives will give a boost to local economies and to the earnings of small farmers and farm labourers, who can earn Rs …

Cities begin to see an exodus of migrant workers
3 years, 9 months ago

Cities begin to see an exodus of migrant workers

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI : Hundreds of migrant workers are fleeing Indian cities as new restrictions in some states to contain the pandemic have stoked fears that they will be left jobless again. While the reverse migration from cities and industrial centres is still a trickle, companies fear another mass exodus, like the one last year, will trigger a shortage of workers …

‘Farm to Factory’: Employment for Marginal Farmers, Farm Labourers Need of the Hour in Rural India
4 years ago

‘Farm to Factory’: Employment for Marginal Farmers, Farm Labourers Need of the Hour in Rural India

News 18  

In farming, size matters. Farming is a seasonal affair, not a full-time job so the second job option mostly required by the small, marginal farmers and farm labourers in their nearby areas that’s why new industrial investment should be attracted in rural and backward areas by offering special incentives. Special incentives are being offered to develop industrial corridors and clusters …

A path for the Indian economy to find its way out of the woods
4 years ago

A path for the Indian economy to find its way out of the woods

Live Mint  

As much we would like to forget 2020, it is unlikely we will anytime soon. The rural economy accounts for almost half of India’s GDP and has done better than its urban counterpart, as reflected in the better performance of sectors with a rural footprint, such as tractors, two-wheelers, fertilizers and agrochemicals. Second, government support is tilted towards the rural …

In COVID-19 crisis, an opportunity to reboot, revitalise rural economies with Youth Migrant Entrepreneurs
4 years, 6 months ago

In COVID-19 crisis, an opportunity to reboot, revitalise rural economies with Youth Migrant Entrepreneurs

Firstpost  

As the migrant crisis slowly subsides and India crawls its way back to normalcy, this is the right time to ask: isn’t there a way to avoid forcing these individuals out of their homes? Of the many enduring images during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the multiple visuals of migrant workers scrambling home on foot, cycle, hidden in cement mixing trucks, …

The echo of migrant footfalls and the silence on policy
4 years, 7 months ago

The echo of migrant footfalls and the silence on policy

The Hindu  

When we hear the word migration, we think of Kerala and West Asia, or the United States and the West. Migrant workers | Video of baby with dead mother in Bihar railway station goes viral According to World Bank economist, Supriyo De, “The number of internal migrants in India was 450 million as per the most recent 2011 Census. Migrant …

Returning workers can bring prosperity to rural areas
4 years, 7 months ago

Returning workers can bring prosperity to rural areas

Hindustan Times  

We have treated our migrant workers abominably. As agriculture production went up, TVEs absorbed the surplus labour released from traditional farming, created employment in the villages, and increased the incomes of farmers and rural citizens. It resulted in the TVE output’s value increasing dramatically, helping absorb nearly 30% of China’s rural labour force. Villages and mofussil towns have market opportunities, …

The indispensability of labour in reviving India’s economic engine | Opinion
4 years, 8 months ago

The indispensability of labour in reviving India’s economic engine | Opinion

Hindustan Times  

Migrant workers are like nowhere people. It is a silent army of migrant workers, working day and night with no job security, no social safety net, and poor living conditions — yet, theirs are not the names we see on the billboards or the foundation stones of these shining symbols of India’s economic progress. This will increase, for villagers can …

Where migrants move in search of livelihood in India
5 years, 5 months ago

Where migrants move in search of livelihood in India

Live Mint  

Census 2011 says 45 million Indians moved outside their district of birth for work opportunities—be it employment or business. In terms of inflows, there are only 57 districts across India where more than 20% of migrants moved for work reasons. In terms of outflows, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar accounted for 47% of all migrants moving for work reasons. As with …

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