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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Poverty, Inequality and a Pay Scale That Depends on Contractors' Whims: Scenes From Narela -Deepanshu Mohan, Tavleen Kaur Saluja, Jignesh Mistry, Hima Trisha and Sriniket Bandaru

Poverty, Inequality and a Pay Scale That Depends on Contractors' Whims: Scenes From Narela -Deepanshu Mohan, Tavleen Kaur Saluja, Jignesh Mistry, Hima Trisha and Sriniket Bandaru

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published Published on Oct 30, 2022   modified Modified on Oct 30, 2022

-TheWire.in

The Narela industrial complex is one of the biggest in Asia, packed with booming small-scale industrial units. It runs entirely on the labour of low-income workers who have very little say on their pay and living conditions.

In order to start liberalising trade and industrial production capacity through economic policy, the Indian nation-state began implementing a set of Washington Consensus style neo-liberal economic reforms in the early 1990s.

The liberalisation push across a few sectors might have opened doors to foreign capital investment in and out of India for the period post 1991, however, the nation-state was not emancipated from the “capture” of private business interests, across states and provinces.

A closer look at industrial corridors in and around the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi and the pattern of employment opportunities available provides a lucid illustration of the structural weaknesses of the neo-liberal compact between the state and workers. Industrial pockets from Wazirpur (in the north east of Delhi) to Narela-Bawana (further north of Delhi at the Delhi-Haryana border) offer a privatised, yet semi-formal base of ad hoc employment opportunities for both skilled and unskilled labourers.

Besides natural expansion, trends in inter-state and intra-state migration is a significant factor in the growth of Delhi’s worker population, which has expanded as a result of both – increase in multi-skill employment opportunities and access to affordable or easier mobility (facilitated by cheaper public transport). 

As the national capital and a rapidly expanding economic hub, the NCR of Delhi attracts people and draws them in from the neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and so on. The industrial corridor near the area of Narela was set up after a few industrial centres were displaced from interiors of Delhi after a Supreme Court order in 1996.

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TheWire.in, 30 October, 2022, https://thewire.in/labour/narela-factory-workers-industry


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