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Indian States Attempt Urban Job Guarantee Schemes Amid Covid Crisis
A few states are experimenting with urban job guarantee schemes but they remain scarcely funded.
09 Jul 2020, 01:27 PM IST
Indian states have taken the lead in designing urban employment guarantee programmes as the Covid-19 pandemic disrupts livelihoods. A quicker spread of the virus in densely populated cities and towns has led to continued restrictions of normal business activities, leaving many facing job losses and income shortfalls.While the national level rural jobs guarantee scheme can help provide support to the rural economy, India currently doe...
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