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Candidates appear for the Uttar Pradesh Home Guard Recruitment Exam at B.N.S.D. Shiksha Niketan Inter College, in Kanpur, on April 26. | Photo Credit: ANI With around 2.5 million youths appearing for the Home Guard recruitment examination in Uttar Pradesh, which started on Saturday (April 25, 2026), leading to a rush at bus stations and…
The Congress on Monday (September 30, 2024) dismissed as “half-truths” the government’s assertions of creating eight crore employment opportunities between 2021 and 2024 and 6.2 crore net subscribers joining the EPFO database, and said no “spin-doctoring” can take away from the fact that 2014-24 has seen “jobless growth”. Congress General Secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh…
Jobless crisis: Prolonged protests forced the State to replace two job schemes with a new one — CM’s Fellowship Programme. | Photo Credit: AFP A decision by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Rajasthan, shortly after it came to power in December 2023, to discontinue the previous Congress regime’s Rajiv Gandhi Yuva Mitra Internship…
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Watch: Budget 2024 | What is in store for labour? In her seventh budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced three new employee-linked incentive schemes in the Union Budget for 2024-25. The three schemes, which are part of the Prime Minister’s package, will align with enrolment in the Employee Provident Fund Organisation and focus on…
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KOCHI, Kerala, 27/01/2023 : Job seekers attend a job fair. File | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat The economic loss, particularly to India’s informal sector owing to the cumulative impact of macroeconomic shocks since 2016, including the demonetisation of high-value currency notes, the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the COVID-19 pandemic, is…
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Former NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar. File | Photo Credit: BIJOY GHOSH Prime Minister Narendra Modi led-NDA government in its third term must tackle the problem of unemployment in India, especially in the unorganised sector and in small and medium enterprises, former NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said on June 10. Mr. Kumar also…
Kishore Jayaraman, president of Rolls-Royce, India and South Asia, spoke at a session on “Smart Manufacturing” organised by TexasVentures and CODISSIA in Coimbatore city on Friday June 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: PERIASAMY M Creation of jobs is key for advancement of the country, said Kishore Jayaraman, president of Rolls-Royce, India and South Asia, in…
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Since 2017, the Indian government has been using the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) scheme’s data as a measure of payroll employment and formal job creation in the country. The monthly data released as part of this initiative has generally shown net increases in the number of contributors and this has been portrayed as evidence of…
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