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A civil society group has demanded an extra 50 days’ work per person under the rural job guarantee scheme over and above the provision of up to 100 days’ work per family every year. Under the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha’s proposal, communicated in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a family with one job card holder will be entitled to 150 days’ work while one with two will get 200 days’ work and so on. Advertisement The Morcha has sought the relief only for financial year 2021-22, citing the pandemic-fuelled rise in unemployment. Debmalaya Nandi, a social activist associated with ...

The Railway Board shared the data on the deaths that occurred between January and December 2020.

As India reported a record number of coronavirus cases and deaths, the migrant crisis continued.

Sudhir Paswan, 29, is back to square one--in his village in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, counting his losses. It has been more than a week since he returned, after failing to secure a job in Delhi. A labourer who loaded and unloaded goods in Delhi's Okhla Industrial Area, he would earn between Rs 200 and Rs 700 a day. "Since the lockdown, there was no work and access to food and essentials became difficult. I had to leave the city," he said. Over 800,000 migrants left India's capital, for instance, for their hometowns in 2021. Paswan is just one of them. Jobs have been hit harder since the...

There is an urgent need to strengthen the public distribution system and the MGNREGS