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Swiggy faces challenges after delivery workers go on strike in Mumbai

The delivery workers have been protesting since Sunday due to an alleged change in their incentive structure

K'taka urges Centre to increase employment days to 150 under MGNREGS

Karnataka Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda on Monday said the state government has appealed to the Centre to increase the employment days under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) from 100 days to 150 days in view of severe drought prevailing in the state. Addressing reporters, Gowda said the Central team recently visited the state to inspect the drought situation. The state government has demanded that the Union government should release approximately Rs 475 crore, which has not been paid to the labourers who were employed under the MGNREGS. Those who work as labourers are leading their lives in extreme poverty, the minister said, and added that we will be putting them in further distress by not paying them. Regarding increasing the employment days in the distress year, Gowda said there is a provision in the law that a labourer should get a job for 150 days instead of 100 days during drought. So, the state government sent a request letter to

Amazon India creates over 100k job opportunities ahead of festival sale

The new hires will pick, pack, ship and deliver customer orders safely and efficiently

As firms go on hiring freeze, freshers looking for jobs hit record-high

As many as 2.6 million freshers were actively looking for job opportunities in the last 30 days

West Bengal, Centre spar over unpaid MGNREGS and housing scheme funds

Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh hit back, alleging that West Bengal had issued 2.5 million fake MGNREGS job cards due to which crores of rupees of government funds were siphoned off

Push to investment will create fresh employment opportunities: CM Dhami

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami returned here on Saturday from his five-day UK visit and said the push to investments in the state will create fresh employment opportunities for the local youth. "We inked MoUs for investments worth more than Rs 12,500 crore with international firms during the visit. A large number of investors, which also include NRIs, are keen to invest in the state. Many of them are coming to attend the Global Investors Summit being held in December," Dhami told reporters soon after his arrival at Bannu School ground in race course area here. "It is all very exciting for us. The coming of more investors to the state will create fresh employment opportunities for the local youth. It will also help double the state's GDP in the coming years," Dhami said. The chief minister was accorded a welcome by cabinet ministers Satpal Maharaj, Subodh Uniyal, Ganesh Joshi, Rekha Arya and Pradesh BJP president Mahendra Bhatt. Dhami had left for his UK tour on ...

Travel and tourism industry's hiring demand up 44% YoY in August: Report

Sales and business development roles have the highest hiring demand in the travel & tourism industry, and demand for gig workers, such as photographers, event planners, etc have increased by 14%

Learn local language to serve better: FM Sitharaman at Rozgar Mela

Candidates getting selected for jobs and deployed in other states as per the job profile should learn the local language to be able to provide better services, Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said here on Tuesday. Sitharaman, after handing over orders to successful candidates at the Rozgar Mela, encouraged more candidates to apply for jobs in public sector undertakings located in Tamil Nadu. Referring to the Centre's Rozgar Mela, Sitharaman said the government has been holding it since October 2022 and about 10 lakh people have received job offers so far. "Today 51,000 appointment orders are being given across the country by Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) virtually. I was told 553 people are getting job offers from Tamil Nadu," she said. Speaking of improving the delivery of services to be rendered by the candidates post their selection at a public sector undertaking or bank, Sitharaman said, "If a job offer is given to a candidate who will be servin

Bihar govt announces new scheme for unemployed minority community youths

The Bihar government on Monday announced the launch of 'Mukhyamantri Alpsankhyak Udyami Yojna' for unemployed youths from the minority community. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar here following a proposal by the industry department. Talking to reporters, S. Siddhartha, additional chief secretary (cabinet secretariat), said, "With an aim to promote industrial development and generate employment among unemployed minority youths, the cabinet decided to launch 'Mukhyamantri Alpsankhyak (minority) Udyami Yojna (MAUY). The scheme will be implemented on almost similar lines of the existing Mukhyamantri SC/ST/EBC Udyami Yojana, Mukhyamantri Mahila Udyami Yojna (MMUY) and the Mukhyamantri Yuva Udyami Yojana (MYUY)." "Under this scheme, the Bihar government will provide Rs 10 lakh to an unemployed minority woman or man to start a new industry. Of Rs 10 lakh, Rs 5 lakh would be subsidy, while the rest would be loan, to be returned in ...

PM Modi to distribute 51,000 appointment letters virtually at Rozgar Mela

Newly inducted appointees to also train themselves through online module 'Karmayogi Prarambh'

Demand for frontline jobs decreased by 17.5% in FY23, shows data

The drop can largely be attributed to global macroeconomic headwinds

Assam CM rolls out financial aid scheme to help youths set up business

In a move to fuel growth through self-employment, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday launched a scheme to help youths set up their own ventures. At a function here, Sarma rolled out the Chief Minister's Atmanirbhar Asom Abhijan 2023. He also launched a registration portal for the scheme. Under the programme, financial aid will be given to two lakh youths for creating a robust entrepreneurial ecosystem, he added. Speaking on the occasion, Sarma said, "The scheme has been designed to create self-employment avenues to enable the youths to fuel development of the state. It has the potential to strengthen rural economy." He said that the unemployed degree holders in the fields of engineering, medicine, agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery will be kept in the first category and will be given Rs 5 lakh. "On the other hand, unemployed postgraduates, general graduates, ITI, polytechnic passouts will be kept in the second category for government assistance of Rs 2 lak

Big 'M' index: How moms-in-law may influence married women's job prospects

The report said the presence of a mother-in-law in a household may influence a woman's employment status in two different ways

Employment jumped post-Covid but 2 in 5 young graduates still have no jobs

The workforce participation rate of females has improved in the last five years, especially in rural areas. But this is not due to the rise in the number of jobs but self-employment

Best of BS Opinion: Banking investments, India's double brain drain & more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

Centre launches Skill India Digital platform, to benefit 260 mn students

The SID platform is a comprehensive digital platform aimed at synergizing and transforming the skills, education, employment, and entrepreneurship ecosystem in India

Rajasthan govt plans online training to make youngsters job-ready

The RSLDC is mandated to implement short-term skill development programmes in the state

G20: Skill-based migration pathways to spur formalisation of workforce

To prepare for the future of work, the leaders of the world's top economies at the G20 summit on Saturday recognised that the movement of skilled professionals benefits both the origin and destination

Punjab sees fivefold rise in study loans; statistics indicate exodus

Experts told Mint that the difficult job market in Punjab has led to young individuals seeking opportunities abroad