New Delhi: The Centre has set aside Rs 1.48 lakh crore for education, employment and skilling of youth, which is 30 per cent higher than the previous allocation of Rs 1.13 lakh crore. “In this Budget, we particularly focus on employment, skilling, MSMEs and the...
New Delhi: In a big push for employment, skilling and other opportunities, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Tuesday announced an outlay of Rs 2 lakh crore for several schemes targeting 4.1 crore youth in the Budget for 2024-25. In her Budget speech, Sitharaman said 'employment and...
New Delhi: The government will launch three employment-linked schemes, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said while presenting the Union Budget for 2024-25 Tuesday. These schemes will be based on enrolment in Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO), Sitharaman said in the Lok Sabha. "Our government will implement...
New Delhi: Over 170 employees at the National Testing Agency (NTA) are either contractual or outsourced staff, the Ministry of Education (MoE) informed the Parliament Monday. The ministry, however, clarified that "all core activities involving setting up of question papers" for the exams conducted by...
New Delhi: The march of AI casts a "huge pall of uncertainty" over impact on workers across skill levels, the Economic Survey said Monday as it cautioned that alongside other factors this will create barriers to sustained high growth rates for India in coming years...
New Delhi: Strategic reforms are required to build a solid care economy structure in India, as the country faces the challenge of 'motherhood penalty' with a drop in female labour force participation rate around childbearing years, the Economic Survey 2023-24 said Monday. The survey estimated...
New Delhi: India has 26.52 crore students in schools and 4.33 crore in higher education institutions, according to the Economic Survey 2023-24, tabled in Parliament Monday. The document was tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, a day ahead of the Union Budget announcement. According to...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Governor Raghubar Das Monday said the state government will fill 1.5 lakh vacant government posts in a fair and transparent manner, with 65,000 positions set to be filled within the next two years. Das made these remarks during the inaugural session of the...
New Delhi: The Indian economy needs to generate an average of nearly 78.5 lakh jobs annually until 2030 in the non-farm sector to cater to the rising workforce, according to the Economic Survey for 2023-24. The Survey tabled in Parliament Monday provided a broad estimate...
New Delhi: The CBI Saturday arrested one of the masterminds, a B.Tech graduate from NIT-Jamshedpur, in the NEET-UG paper leak case and two MBBS students who allegedly acted as "solvers", officials said. With the fresh arrests, the total number of people held so far by...
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