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Unemployment is not about just education
August 24, 2026 1:33 pm
Only when the employment crisis India faces today is understood can the necessary corrective action be taken. While India owes its youth the best education, public policy must aim to keep India’s aggregate demand for goods high.
Between the myth and reality of VB-G RAM G, the tragic human cost
August 12, 2026 6:53 pm
VB-G RAM G has undermined the only framework of guaranteed employment that India had. Who benefits from this is a question that India's composite political and economic ruling elite needs to answer
Prosperity or distress: What drove the rise of rural non-farm employment
July 31, 2026 1:17 pm
How does the expanding nature of rural employment beyond agriculture reflect on the changing composition of rural household income? How have rural development programmes aimed at addressing agricultural productivity, employment, and poverty shaped this shift? See infographics for key takeaways and solve MCQs.
Harish Damodaran writes: Why aspiration is dead in India
October 26, 2024 8:07 pm
Multiple indicators — reverse migration, two-wheeler sales, rural employment — show that Indians increasingly have less confidence in the future. The animal spirits of millions need to be revived
While other Gandhian places have become museums, Rashtriya Shala continues to bustle with activity
September 29, 2024 2:14 am
Rashtriya Shala caught national attention when Mahatma Gandhi began his unplanned fast-unto-death on March 3, 1939, in protest against Dharmendrasinh reneging on his promise to Praja Pratinidhi Sabha.
Centre to set up task force to study migration impact
August 13, 2015 3:19 am
National Sample Survey data shows that one in three households in urban areas are migrant households.
Making it work
September 15, 2014 12:35 am
Restructure the MGNREGS to raise overall efficiency and gains to rural households.
For a better MGNREGA
July 05, 2014 8:25 am
The scheme should be refocused towards creating durable assets in agriculture.
Vasundhara reopens debate, asks Centre: Why must NREG be law, not scheme?
July 04, 2014 2:28 am
In her letter to Gadkari, Raje said that some issues in the Act need a rethink.
Agencies to compensate for MGNREGS wage delays
October 01, 2013 12:15 am
This move to reform the most fundamental aspect of the scheme comes just days before dates for Assembly elections.
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