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 employment scheme.” “We strongly advocate for a national program too. With the pandemic hitting urban informal workers even more than their rural counterparts, several states have decided to push ahead instead of waiting for cues from the centre. Dreze has his own proposal—a Decentralised Urban Employment and Training scheme, or DUET, involving government-issued job stamps that can be used to hire workers.

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Karnataka seeks pending dues from Centre under MGNREGA to help mitigate drought condition
1 year, 2 months ago

Karnataka seeks pending dues from Centre under MGNREGA to help mitigate drought condition

The Hindu  

As 216 taluks in Karnataka are reeling under drought, the Congress government led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has requested the Centre to release pending Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme wage component at the earliest, for ensuring effective implementation of the job scheme. Letter to the Centre Karnataka Chief Secretary Vandita Sharma has written to Shailesh Kumar Singh, Secretary, …

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 …

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 …

2006: Rural job scheme MGNREGA introduced
2 years, 5 months ago

2006: Rural job scheme MGNREGA introduced

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 15, 2022 06:00 IST The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was introduced by the United Progressive Alliance government, partly to fulfil an election manifesto promise. The primary objective of the Act is to provide a minimum level of household security to rural families by providing work for unskilled labour for at least 100 days. The …

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, …

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 …

Challenges to Tamil Nadu’s urban future
2 years, 10 months ago

Challenges to Tamil Nadu’s urban future

The Hindu  

In the 2022 urban local body elections held after over 10 years in Tamil Nadu, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and its allies won by a sweeping majority. It is in recognition of this urban growth and corresponding land use transformations and development needs that Tamil Nadu recently decided to constitute new urban development authorities in Madurai, Coimbatore, Tiruppur and Hosur, …

Underestimated utility: The Hindu Editorial on Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee rural jobs scheme fund crunch
3 years, 2 months ago

Underestimated utility: The Hindu Editorial on Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee rural jobs scheme fund crunch

The Hindu  

That as many as 21 of 35 States/UTs have utilised, by October 29, over 100% of their allocated funds under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme for FY2021-22 is not a surprise. In the previous year, the allocations for MGNREGS were increased by ₹50,000 crore to meet the demand for work, with the Revised Estimates for spending for the …

A case for extension: The Hindu Editorial on rural jobs scheme
4 years, 6 months ago

A case for extension: The Hindu Editorial on rural jobs scheme

The Hindu  

The finding that 8.4 lakh poor households have completed at least 80 days of the 100-day limit for work under the MGNREGS and 1.4 lakh among those have completed the full quota, should come as no surprise. While these numbers are a fraction of the 4.6 crore households which have benefited from MGNREGS this year, the fact that many poor …

Coronavirus | Economists call for urban jobs scheme
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus | Economists call for urban jobs scheme

The Hindu  

A new Urban Employment Guarantee Act is needed to complement the existing rural jobs scheme during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, said a group of development activists and economists. Given that a large number of migrants returning from cities to villages as a result of the lockdown would desperately need work but may not have MGNREGA job cards, the group suggested …

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 …

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 …

Employment scheme launched for urban poor youth in Madhya Pradesh
5 years, 11 months ago

Employment scheme launched for urban poor youth in Madhya Pradesh

India Today  

On the occasion of Republic Day, the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Kamal Nath announced the launch of the 'Yuva Swabhiman Yojana' for youth from the economically weaker sections in urban areas. In his Republic Day address at the Police Parade Maidan in Madhya Pradesh, Kamal Nath said that the youth were the future of India and they had immense …

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