Tag: Rural Employment
COVID-19 Second Wave Diaries: How some government authorities responded innovatively to challenges | COVID-19
Local authorities in remote areas stepped up to encourage education and earning avenues during COVID times.
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Gaya’s Village of Migrant Workers
Out of the 132 families in this Bihar village, at least hundred have seen their younger members migrate in search of work, but not necessarily a better life.
Video Advocacy: MGNREGA
Since 2006, Video Volunteers’ Community Correspondents Network (CCN) – a cadre of 186 community video journalists – have been using their video cameras to highlight issues of injustice affecting their local communities. One of the key thematic areas has been the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Our...
Video Volunteers Impact: An entire village gets work under NREGA
Asha Devi, a farm labourer from Bihar was working hard to make ends meet with her seasonal, meagre earnings. She had no idea, that she could have a supplementary income during the non-harvest seasons through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), an Indian labour law and social security measure...
Unemployed Pay Bribes for Jobs.
MGNREGA in Rajpur, M.P., defrauds the unemployed.