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NEW DELHI: The unemployment rate among those in the 15 years and above age group in rural areas declined to 4% in Oct-Dec, 2025, from 4.4% in the previous quarter, driven by a dip in joblessness rate for males and females in rural areas.The Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) survey quarterly data released Tuesday showed…
The FMCG sector registered a robust recovery in the December quarter, aided by GST changes, festive sales, and reduced costs of raw materials. Even Dabur, Marico, and Godrej Consumer Products reported volume growth with single-digit revenue growth along with improved operating profit margins. The rural market continued to report better sales than the urban market,…
BHOPAL/INDORE: A recent Union govt assessment under the Jal Jeevan Mission had found that 36.7% of drinking water samples from rural Madhya Pradesh were not potable, highlighting risks in village water supply systems amid outrage at the deaths of 10 people in Indore linked to contaminated drinking water supplied by the urban administration.A state Pollution…
BENGALURU: The Karnataka govt is considering rejecting the Centre’s Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Grameen), or G-RAM-G, which has replaced MGNREGA, and is exploring the possibility of rolling out its own rural employment guarantee scheme.“The Cabinet on Friday condemned G-RAM-G, which has snatched the right to work from the people of this…
File photo: Union rural development minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan NEW DELHI: With Congress set to launch a protest against the VB-G RAM G scheme, which replaced the UPA-era MGNREGA, the rural development ministry has sent a detailed report on the new scheme to all central ministers which they can refer to in public meetings to…
Driving the newsThe MGNREGA – a flagship UPA-era program that guaranteed 100 days of wage employment to rural households – has been replaced by the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) or VB-G RAM G Act.Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan framed it as a bold leap forward: “This is a far better scheme…
Driving the newsThe MGNREGA – a flagship UPA-era program that guaranteed 100 days of wage employment to rural households – has been replaced by the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) or VB-G RAM G Act.Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan framed it as a bold leap forward: “This is a far better scheme…
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Monday alleged the ruling AAP in Punjab “abused power and manipulated the poll process” to win the recent zila parishad and panchayat samiti election, and claimed that even then it failed to put up an impressive show.He said while the AAP claims to have won 220…
PUNE: Even as BJP emerged as the single largest party in the municipal council and nagar panchayat elections across the state, Congress managed to halt BJP’s juggernaut in several municipal councils and nagar panchayats in Vidarbha. In Maharashtra’s sugar bowl of western Maharashtra, BJP battled its own Mahayuti alliance partners as Congress and NCP (SP)…
NEW DELHI: Stepping up its attack on govt over the rollback of MGNREGA, Congress held protests at its district headquarters Sunday. This came a day after Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi, in a video message, accused the Modi govt of “bulldozing” MGNREGA and asserted that the “black law” that seeks to repeal it will…
