Employment

There was an interesting piece in the Economic Times this week about migrant labour and its effects on the wider economy. Essentially, it said that the government’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), about which I blogged a couple weeks ago, is causing a major change in the labour…

Is there something fundamentally wrong with the UPA’s views on economic activity? A recent Mint article tells us that NDA government created almost 30 times as many jobs as the UPA. And no one disputes the numbers, Chidambaram…

The government is finally coming around and realizing that providing public services for free is not a viable option in the long term.By allowing shops and advertisements in the community toilet facilities, it is rightly bringing in market forces to create sustainable service delivery model…