More than 10 such cards have been used in the Peeparkheda Naka village in Jhirnia panchayat where the pictures of the actual beneficiaries were replaced with Bollywood celebrities

MGNREGS has come to the rescue of millions of migrant workers who returned to their hometowns during the coronavirus pandemic

Mukherjee has made India proud by serving at many international forums, such as IMF, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, and many others through the years

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Tuesday said that business disruptions due to localised lockdowns should be mitigated to sustain the signs of economic recovery in the country

Flipkart had earlier announced it would eliminate single use plastic in packaging. One of its latest initiatives is to use eco-friendly recycled paper bags, to replace the poly pouches for packaging of products; Drugmaker AstraZeneca has said that it is \"on track\" to roll out up to two billion doses of coronavirus vaccine in September; Sonia Gandhi has said that MGNREGA is a shining example of a radical and rational systemic change. She asked the Modi government to not play politics and use a \"powerful mechanism\" as MGNREGA wisely. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Coronavirus vaccine update: China inches closer; Japan sets June 2021 target

Given its predominant role as a source of livelihood, the informal economy needs to be fixed first once the health crisis blows over. This would call for a series of long-neglected steps such as collecting comprehensive data on informal establishments and informal labour, benchmarking reasonable national minimum wage, providing comprehensive social security cover and reviving MSMEs

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According to the document demonetisation in November 2016 has resulted in 35 lakh jobs being lost.

As per government data, the average days of employment provided per household under MGNREGA between FY16 to FY19 stand at 47, which is not even half of the 100 days of guaranteed work

NYAY scheme: \"The first year they're only aiming for the poorest of the poor who're actually relatively easy to target,\" said MIT Economics professor Abhijit Banerjee.

In the interim budget, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal announced direct income support of Rs 6,000 per year to 12 crore small and marginal farmers holding cultivable land up to 2 hectare.