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India’s migrant construction workers: An analysis of their welfare framework -Subhomay Saha, Karan Peer and Shrabani Saha

-Down to Earth

There are prominent shortcomings in implementation, especially registration of workers and and collection and distribution of Cess

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic had widespread and devastating consequences to communities and enterprises in India and across the globe. However, the situation was particularly grim for the 453.6 million internal migrants in India, evidenced by the unprecedented ‘reverse migration’ witnessed during the pandemic. 

Their vulnerabilities were exacerbated by the fact a large section of the working-age migrant population in India finds employment in the informal economy, which denied them any access to social security benefits upon stoppage of work due to lockdown. 

The spatial distribution of economic growth and prosperity in India in the past two-and-a-half decades has been agglomerated in-and-around pre-existing centres of growth. This has accentuated the pre-existing disparities in terms of economic growth, prosperity and livelihood opportunities between the cities and the resource-poor regions of this country. 

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