Mainstream Weekly

How Branded Products are Cheating the Consumers

P K Bhargava — 2010-04-10T04:56:00Z

In the process of growth of an economy like India, the level of income of the people, though unevenly, has also been continuously increasing. The increased level of income of the people has a significant impact on their consumption levels. In the process, not only does the demand for existing products increase but at the same time people prefer to shift to better quality products. One can, therefore, notice that industries per-taining to the ‘consumer goods' sector are making rapid progress (…)

- 2010

National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme: Issues and Challenges

Jyoti Bhargava, P K Bhargava — 2009-03-07T12:21:18Z

Problems of unemployment and poverty are inter-related and both these problems have continued to be acute in rural India. In order to overcome these problems, there have been a number of employment schemes in the past—the Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS), National Rural Employment Programme (NREP), Jawahar Rojgar Yojana (JRY) and Sampoorna Gramin Rojgar Yojana (SGRY). However, most of them have not yielded the desired results and brought security to people's lives. Under such a situation, (…)

- March 2009

Social Security for Contractual Labour : Issues and Challenges

Jyoti Bhargava, P K Bhargava — 2008-06-02T08:55:06Z

Modern governments are committed to promote the welfare of its citizens and in the process, therefore, a number of initiatives have continued to be undertaken over time to protect them from various calamities and contingencies of life. The net of material welfare of the state has thus widened in an effort to ensure a minimum standard of life for its citizens. However, in this race relatively less developed countries like India have lagged behind in the absence of availability of adequate (…)

- May 31, 2008