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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Get food to worksites, says Aajeevika in Ahmedabad

Get food to worksites, says Aajeevika in Ahmedabad

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published Published on Dec 16, 2020   modified Modified on Dec 23, 2020

-Civil Society News

When the lockdown began to ease in June, migrant workers who had left Ahmedabad for their villages started returning to the city in the hope of finding some employment.

It hasn’t been easy. Industrial areas haven’t opened up fully and employers are going slow on taking on workers. Sunk in debt with insecure work, hunger now stalks migrant workers.

Entire families have been living out in the open on worksites. The city, a hub of industrial and commercial activity, has about 1.3 million migrant workers, one-sixth its population. Most of them are from the tribal regions of Northern Gujarat, southern Rajasthan, western Madhya Pradesh, and from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh.

Getting food to migrant families is priority and Aajeevika Bureau, which works for migrant labour, has started a campaign called Jahaan Mazdoor, Vahin Annaz or take food to workers and worksites.

Aajeevika Bureau has urged the government to continue two food distribution schemes for migrant workers started during the lockdown: the Anna Brahma Yojana and the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana.  

Universalization of the public distribution system (PDS), point out Aajeevika activists, will avert hunger, help migrants stay on in the city and put the economy back on its feet.

“Subsidized food and ration must be made available unconditionally, regardless of documentation or domicile, to migrant communities in Ahmedabad,” says Mahesh Gajera, programme manager of Aajeevika Bureau in Ahmedabad.

Initially migrant workers did get jobs as worksites began to open up and contractors started picking up workers from labour chowks.

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Civil Society News, 16 December, 2020, https://www.civilsocietyonline.com/special-focus/get-food-to-worksites-says-aajeevika/


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