On Labour Day 2016, many workers in Jharkhand returned Rs 5 (that year's wage rate hike) to the Prime Minister. The next year on Labour Day workers returned Rupee 1 to the PM. This was done to protest against the meagre hike in the wage rate. In 2018-19, there has been no increment in wage rates in 10 states.

The larger companies will make some noise, but will adopt it, because they have no choice and will start looking at productivity improvement and automation to compensate for the increase in costs. The MSME sector will be impacted.

The last time the MGNREGA wages and state minimum wages were aligned was in 2009, but since then several states have announced upward revisions arbitrarily.

Singh said greater emphasis is being given to agricultural education, research and extension activities and extension of the facilities for irrigation, low-cost organic farming, crop insurance, national agricultural market, horticulture development and agro forestry remain focus areas.

However, it is still mandatory to link your welfare schemes with Aadhaar to get social welfare benefits under Article 7. The SC bench, headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, said the government can't insist on mandatory Aadhaar linking with mobile phones, passports, PAN, etc.

A coalition of civil society groups has asked Narendra Modi government to announce a Rs 200,000 crore agricultural debt relief package in the forthcoming Union Budget 2018.

A survey conducted by financial counselling service company Ernst and Young also concluded that there is a \"broad agreement that the Budget priorities would favour agriculture and other job-creating sectors such as manufacturing and construction\".

Only 32 percent of the labour charges due to the workers for completed jobs have been paid on time during the first two quarters of 2017-18, an analysis carried out by a team of researchers say.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said JAM (Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Mobile) trinity has ushered in a social revolution which will eventually bring all Indians into a common financial, economic and digital space

The future course of action for the loss-making airline, which is surviving on taxpayers' money, is being actively looked at by the government and a decision on the possible privatisation is likely in three months.

The direct benefit transfer programme has resulted in Rs 50,000 crore savings for the government in the last three years as funds were directly transferred to 32 crore needy people, BJP President Amit Shah has said.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was the prime mover behind Cyberabad, the information technology hub that hosts global giants such as Microsoft, as an extension to the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.

Action will \"definitely\" be taken against 9.29 lakh entities who have not responded to the I-T department's queries over cash deposited by them which did not match their income profile, the government asserted today.