Workers bear the brunt of summer in Prakasam
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They toil in inhospitable weather conditions in the absence of viable alternative economic activity
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They toil in inhospitable weather conditions in the absence of viable alternative economic activity
Fifty-eight-year-old Podapatti Malakondaiah swooned while removing earth under the blazing sun at remote Kondamudusupalem village in Prakasam district as part of works under the Centre’s flagship programme Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
He was rushed to the government hospital at Kandukur but he succumbed to heatstroke. His widow was paid a paltry ₹50,000 as compensation.
Four others, including two in Markapur mandal, met with a similar fate in different parts of the district during peak summer this fiscal. Close to 8.37 lakh workers work under inhospitable weather conditions in the absence of any other viable economic activity in the drought-prone district.
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A study was conducted in 24 districts of the State
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A survey of child labour during COVID-19 pandemic was released by members of Campaign Against Child Labour in Madurai on Friday. | Photo Credit: G. Moorthy
A study was conducted in 24 districts of the State
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There has been a significant increase in the proportion of working children from 28.2% to 79.6% out of the 818 children who were surveyed, mainly because of the COVID-19 pandemic and closure of schools, reveals a study conducted by Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL).
CACL State Convenor R. Karuppusamy released the rapid survey titled ‘COVID-19: Reversing the Situation of Child Labour’. The study conducted in 24 districts of the State showed that child labour had rapidly increased in North, South and Eastern districts of the state. The survey was conducted by interviewing children in the age category 6 to 18 during September and November 2020.
Plea to reappoint NREGS field assistants
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‘Their removal, citing strike by them, is illegal’
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‘Their removal, citing strike by them, is illegal’
National Backward Classes Welfare Association president R. Krishnaiah has requested Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to take back (reappoint) over 7,600 field assistants who were working on contract basis for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and were removed by the government in March last year following an indefinite protest by them.
In a letter addressed to the Chief Minister on Thursday, Mr. Krishnaiah said the field assistants, who were playing a key role in the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme till they were removed unceremoniously last year, and their families were suffering badly in the absence of any alternative employment opportunity. Most of them had crossed the upper age limit for competing for other jobs as they ha
New initiatives for water harvesting and groundwater recharge have been launched in Rajasthan with the design standardisation of water sources. The State Public Health Engineering Department has chalk
India should focus on job creation for balanced growth
The analysis shows that employment growth as well as wage growth have slowed down the most in mid-sized firms. Photo: iStock
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Lalit Bhasin
Our effort to revive GDP growth is laudable, but the generation of jobs needs special attention. State support measures should be aimed at sectors that employ people in large numbers.
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Budget 2021-22 was a balanced one, given the difficult circumstances the country faced. Having said that, India’s fast-recovering economy is not doing enough to create jobs. To fix this, the government must focus not just on accelerating growth, but on fuelling employment too. So far, our V-shaped revival of gross domestic product has not translated into a recovery of lost jobs. India’s unemployment rate rose to 9% in December, by data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, with around 9 million losing their jobs between September and that month. The Union bu