The rising minimum wage has reduced wage inequality in India over the past two decades. These gains were achieved without adverse effects on employment.
Issue of low wages was pointed out by Parliamentary panel in a report tabled in February. It demanded increase in wages to engage more workers and to bring uniformity across states.
Factory owners are asking for 60% govt-mandated hike. Meanwhile, the govt said minimum wage would rise by 56.25% to 12,500 taka ($114) a month from 1 December — first hike in 5 years.
Farmers and workers from organised and unorganised sectors gathered at the Ramlila Maidan Wednesday to demand better access to health, housing, wages and livelihood.
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh wants govt to tweak current formula for minimum wages, particularly the presumption that each wage-earner supports a family of only 3.
A new book titled ‘The RTI Story: Power to the People’ by Aruna Roy chronicles how the simple act of demanding minimum wages became a struggle for the ‘right to know’.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.
The need of the hour is to downsize the government bureaucracy. What Milei is doing in Argentina, DOGE is doing in USA, we need to do the same here in India.
The government with it’s bloated bureaucracy is a huge burden on the economy. There is absolutely no requirement for 53 ministries in the Union govt. Most of these ministries can be done away with and others merged together. That will rationalize personnel utilization and bring about greater efficiency and co-ordination.
The need of the hour is to downsize the government bureaucracy. What Milei is doing in Argentina, DOGE is doing in USA, we need to do the same here in India.
The government with it’s bloated bureaucracy is a huge burden on the economy. There is absolutely no requirement for 53 ministries in the Union govt. Most of these ministries can be done away with and others merged together. That will rationalize personnel utilization and bring about greater efficiency and co-ordination.