Homebased work is considered to be ‘self-employment’. According to the 61st-Round NSSO 2004–05 Employment and Unemployment Report, members of about 52 per cent of the rural households.....
Read MoreOn 21 December 2004, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, the Union Rural Development Minister, introduced the National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill in the Lok Sabha.
Read MoreThough sounds anachronistic in the early 21st Century, it is a fact that almost all of the safai karamcharis in India come from a group of castes, who belong to the lowest rung of the caste hierarchy.
Read MoreWill the Sixth Ministerial Conference (MC6) of World Trade Organisation (WTO) go the Seattle and Cancun way? The clarion call to `Derail the Hong Kong Ministerial` scheduled from 13-18 December 2005 has been reverberating from all corners of the world.