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How formal staffing can drive India’s job quality and economic growth
June 17, 2025 1:16 pm
The future of the workforce in India lies in the formalisation of employment and skill-linked employment
‘Even if we faint from the heat, they make us work’: How Delhi’s informal workforce bears brunt of climate crisis
May 01, 2025 9:16 pm
The report finds that workers are adapting their routines to survive extreme weather, but often at a high personal cost.
After three shocks, 16.45 lakh jobs lost in informal sector over 7 years
July 12, 2024 11:50 am
The data available for the first time since 2015-16, provides an understanding of the impact of the three major exogenous shocks viz., demonetisation, rollout of the Goods and Service Tax, and the Covid-19 pandemic, on the growth of unincorporated enterprises.
Policymakers must break India’s cycle of poverty
December 01, 2021 7:48 am
🔴 Feroze Varun Gandhi writes: They should turn away from supply-side measures and pursue demand-side policies, help the common man.
In three years, informal economy down to 15-20% from 52%, says SBI report
November 01, 2021 8:00 am
At least Rs 13 lakh crore has come into the formal economy through various channels over the last few years, including the recent scheme on the e-Shram portal, according to SBI Ecowrap.
Field work for survey on jobs in informal sector launched
October 04, 2021 4:42 am
It comes after the Labour Ministry had last week unveiled results of the revamped Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) for April-June, which captured the employment situation for organised sector and establishments having more than 10 workers.
What India's informal sector needs right now
August 21, 2021 7:56 am
Pranjul Bhandari writes: It is critical to provide protection to workers via social welfare schemes.
World Bank approves $500 million loan to support India's informal working class amid pandemic
June 30, 2021 6:02 pm
Of the USD 500 million commitment, USD 112.50 million will be financed by its concessionary lending arm International Development Association and USD 387.50 million will be a loan from International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).
PM’s pension scheme: Two months into launch, workers not keen, call it poll gimmick
May 01, 2019 11:19 am
Makhan Lal, a construction worker who is on the verge of quitting work because of a dislocated shoulder, says: “I haven’t heard of Modi’s pension scheme or Rahul Gandhi’s NYAY... what I know is that we will remain poor, this basti will continue to have open sewage and during rains our houses will be under sewer water.”
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