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Corporate-driven industrialisation has failed to create the jobs that India’s youth need. We need a different kind of growth based on reducing the productivity gap between rural and urban India. The author presents an agenda for raising rural productivity so that quality employment is created in the rural areas.
In a press statement, the Morcha has condemned the Modi government’s implementation of mandatory Aadhaar-based wage payments for MGNREGA workers from January 1, saying it will render 8.9 crore rural workers ‘ineligible’. Also: The Congress condemns this.
GOI efforts to spin a jobs growth narrative has meant the following: it is not willing to recognise a glaring problem, and hence no concrete efforts are needed to change economic policy to make the growth pattern more labour-intensive.
Very few are actually asking why these poor subaltern kids were daring to repeat Bhagat Singh’s act, knowing that they will face serious consequences. Also: ‘Drop the UAPA Charges Against Youth Arrested in Parliament Jumping Case: PUCL’; and ‘Unemployment, Inflation: Rahul Gandhi Blames PM Modi’s Policies for Parliament Security Breach’.
Thousands of teachers work under the system with no job security. Now they fear that new changes will further damage their chances of securing permanent posts.
Declining manufacturing activity, a slowdown in the services sector, rising unemployment, and air pollution may pose a challenge to India’s projected economic growth. Also: “With Job ‘Mahakumbha’, Nitish Kumar Foregrounds Importance of Promises Kept”; and “ Employment Versus Hindu-Muslim Politics”.
The PLFS for 2022-23 reports the highest workforce participation rate and the lowest unemployment rate in the last six years. This has been the result of the entry of an increasing number of women into agriculture. Stagnant household incomes are pushing women into low-paid self-employment.
Work demand in the rural jobs guarantee scheme (MGNREGA) has almost reached 2021 level by July this year. Remember: 2021 was the second year of the pandemic which saw a jump in demand after the deadly second wave of Covid. But the government continues to under-fund the scheme.
There is a myth in capitalism that anybody and everybody—with the necessary drive and ambition—can make a go of starting their own business. Statistically, that is just not the case.
Mandatory digital attendance has led to 10% decline in work. Also: Press Release by the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha.
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