Search For "employment"
Odisha govt to provide work to urban daily wage labourers, sanctions Rs 10
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], April 18 (ANI): The Odisha government on Saturday announced the 'Urban Wage Employment Initiative' and sanctioned Rs 100 crore to provide relief to daily wage labourers facing hardship amid the ongoing coronavirus lockdown.
Read More
Centre requests States/UTs to have nodal officer to coordinate with Contro
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 18 (ANI): Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Santosh Gangwar has requested States and UTs to designate a nodal officer from the Labour Department to coordinate with the control rooms set up by the Centre for "addressing issues of workers in the coun
Read More
Central govt sets up 20 control rooms to address wage-related grievances o
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 14 (ANI): The Ministry of Labour and Employment has set up 20 control rooms under the Office of Chief Labour Commissioner (CLC) (C) on pan India basis to tackle issues arising out of the COVID-19 crisis, according to an official statement.
Read More
TDP leaders hold hunger strike, demand compensation for those who lost emp
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], April 14 (ANI): Telugu Desam Party MLA Gadde Rammohan and his wife and party leader Gadde Anuradha went on a 12-hour hunger strike demanding that the government should pay Rs 5,000 to those families that have lost employment due to the lockdown, here on M
Read More
KVIC exploring possibility to use PMEGP electronic units for manufacturing
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 13 (ANI): Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) in a video conferencing with its State Directors on Monday asked them to explore the possibility of Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) manufacturing units working in electronics items to c
Read More
Karimnagar Police Commissioner distributes essential commodities to famili
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Karimnagar (Telangana) [India], April 12 (ANI): Karimnagar police commissioner VB Kamalasan Reddy on Sunday distributed essential commodities to the families of people who lost employment due to lockdown.
Read More
Law firm to provide free legal assistance to medical responders
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] April 11 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Probus Legal, a Mumbai-based law firm is offering free legal assistance to doctors, nurses and other medical first responders who are at the forefront of the fight against coronavirus (COVID-19).
Read More
J&K administration releases Rs 183 Cr to MNREGA workers
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], April 10 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir administration released a sum of Rs. 183 crore to benefit the poor households under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA).
Read More
Jaiveer Shergill burns 2 lamps, says will light 7 more if govt lives up to
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): As the nation expressed solidarity in the battle against COVID-19 by lighting diyas in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's '9pm9minute' call, Congress leader Jaiveer Shergill took a jibe at the Centre, saying that he will light more lamps when relief is
Read More
COVID-19: US loses over 700,000 jobs in March
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], April 3 (ANI): The United States witnessed the loss of 701,000 jobs in March raising the nation's unemployment rate by almost one per cent to 4.4 per cent due to the coronavirus pandemic, said the Labor Department in its monthly employment report on Friday.
Read More
Wage under MNREGA affixed as Rs 201 per day in UP from April 1
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 27 (ANI): The Uttar Pradesh government has affixed the wage for unskilled labour as Rs 201 per day under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA) from April 1.
Read More
Punjab CM seeks financial assistance from Centre to clear pending MGNREGA
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Mar 26 (ANI): Amid the coronavirus lockdown, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has sought financial assistance from the Central government to clear all pending liabilities under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) sche
Read More