A woman worker watering saplings at a nursery in Hunsagi of Yadgir district.
The Social Forestry wing of the Forest Department in Surpur and Hunsagi Range has aimed to raise 1.29 lakh saplings of different varieties to be distributed among the general public, farmers and government authorities to plant them to ensure more greenery and also, protect the environment effectively.
Officers in different capacities in the Social Forestry wing and Chief Executive Officer of Yadgir Zilla Panchayat Shilpa Sharma have jointly made the efforts to choose the different varieties of saplings.
At present, 89,000 saplings of different varities of Beech, Neem, Curry, Mahagoni,
The Union Budget for 2021-22 gave little assurance to migrant workers and the unemployed.
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday reiterated some old schemes like the One Nation One Ration Card to enable the beneficiaries get rations in places where they have migrated for work. She proposed to launch a portal that will collect information on gig, building and construction workers. This will help formulate health, housing, skill, insurance, credit and food schemes for migrant workers.
However, Sitharaman was silent on the demand from academia and civil society groups for an employment assurance scheme on the lines of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) for the urban people.
A lenient tax regime that favours private capital and restrained debt-financed spending are quite evident
Bruised by the COVID-19 pandemic, Indians, like their counterparts elsewhere in the world, are looking for renewal. So, even granting that an annual budget is not a corrective for all ills, evidence of a change in course was expected
in Budget 2021. Change also seemed possible. With the worst of COVID-19 and the lockdown-triggered contraction behind it, the government could intensify efforts to not just accelerate recovery but also turn its attention to the neglected health sector and redress the damage inflicted on the poor by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Rural India’s lifeline missing from Budget 2021 speech
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Allocations for MGNREGA scheme stood at ₹73,000 crore in 2021-22, higher than the budget estimates for the previous year, but lower than the revised estimates.
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Hard at work: Workers engaged in desilting a dry pond under the MGNREGA scheme in Haryana. | Photo Credit:
V. V. KRISHNAN
Allocations for MGNREGA scheme stood at ₹73,000 crore in 2021-22, higher than the budget estimates for the previous year, but lower than the revised estimates.
The scheme that has been described as the lifeline of rural India during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown was completely missing from the Finance Minister’s Budget speech on Monday.
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‘6.28 lakh beneficiaries added to the workforce in 2020-21 fiscal’
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‘6.28 lakh beneficiaries added to the workforce in 2020-21 fiscal’
The turnout for work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) increased in the State in the 2020-21 financial year, but participation of women workforce saw a decline.
The difference between the amount of person days (employment) generated by men and women is striking. The share of person days by men has seen a growth of 10.85% in the pandemic-hit year, while the share of women person days has registered a negative growth of 3.72%, when compared to the date of 2019-20 fiscal year.