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Govt flags off domestic worker survey; unveils instruction manual

Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav on Monday flagged off the fieldwork of All India Survey on Domestic Workers and unveiled its instruction manual. It will cover 742 districts of 37 states in the country. "This survey will cover a database of five and a half lakh households across the country and cover all types of domestic services like cook, driver, housekeeping, tutors (for children), watchman etc. This evidence-based study will help the government in policy-making for this segment of workers," Yadav said, addressing at the launch of fieldwork of the survey. Rapid urbanisation due to expansion would lead to migration of workers and a rise in the number of domestic workers, he added. Yadav released an instruction manual with a questionnaire for the All India Survey on Domestic Workers being conducted by Labour Bureau, Chandigarh. According to the latest data on the e-Shram portal, around 8.8 per cent of the registered 8.56 crore informal sector workers fall in the category of

Canals led to urbanisation but created few non-farm jobs: Study

Canals have led to an increase in urbanisation and demand for education, but there's been little industrialisation in the areas they irrigate, finds a new study

Poor planning: How Chennai, one of the wettest cities, ran out of water

The ancient south Indian port has become a case study in what can go wrong when industrialisation, urbanisation and a booming metropolis paves over flood plain to meet demand for new homes, factories

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Are politicians potential super-spreaders?

Younger caseload, older fatalities in Punjab, Bihar polls may be held on schedule, informal schools become centres of learning--news on how the country is coping with the pandemic

Letter to BS: Protect Western Ghats from turning into a concrete jungle

Already, many parts of the Ghats have suffered due to urbanisation and no more damage to them should be permitted even for rail links.

The sociology of the slowdown

The last economics guy to take sociology into account was Milton Friedman, says the author

Visual and textual artists show how Mumbai's urbanism is shifting

'The Shifting City' reflects without much judgement the refashioning of Mumbai's spaces

India's urban challenge

Cities create the space for structural and spatial transformation, entrepreneurship, and achieve a faster pace of economic growth and job creation

India must build new Chicago every year to meet urban demand: Hardeep Puri

Puri stressed that India still had to build 70 per cent of the new urban infrastructure required by 2030 and this has to be green and resilient

'Rent to own' scheme: One of the ways to fix housing deficit in urban areas

All schemes for addressing India's housing shortage zero in on property purchases, but rental housing has not made much headway despite its importance

Poorly planned urbanisation pattern may impose $1.8 trillion cost

A report finds that Indian cities that were more compact in 2002 experienced faster economic growth from 2002-2012