This is the Forty-Second Report on Implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 of the Ministry of Rural Development (Department of Rural Development).

The majority of chronically poor people are economically active but the poor quality of that work, including its low-pay, dangerous conditions, insecurity and irregularity means that this work frequently maintains people in poverty rather than enabling poverty escapes.

The Stand Alone Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG) for the period 2007-12 containing the results of Performance Audit of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has been prepared for submission to the Governor of Bihar under Article 15(12) of the Constitution.

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), as a part of its 68th round survey programme during the period July 2011 - June 2012, carried out an all-India household survey on the subject of employment and unemployment in India.

Standing Committee on Coal and Steel present this Thirtieth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on "Review of Performance of Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation (CMPFO)" relating to the Ministry of Coal.

The Ministry of Rural Development, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Mahatma Gandhi NREGA) aims at enhancing livelihood security of households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskille

These are the new operational guidelines of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act issued by the ministry of rural development to ensure effective implementation of the programme.

Five years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the Global employment trends 2013 offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment.