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The indispensability of labour in reviving India’s economic engine -Maitreesh Ghatak

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published Published on May 8, 2020   modified Modified on May 10, 2020

-Hindustan Times

To enable their return to cities, improve wages, living conditions, safety net. Coercion won’t work

Migrant workers are like nowhere people. Yet, they are everywhere. From high-rises to highways, who builds them? It is a silent army of migrant workers, working day and night with no job security, no social safety net, and poor living conditions — yet, theirs are not the names we see on the billboards or the foundation stones of these shining symbols of India’s economic progress. From domestic helps to drivers, from the vegetable seller to the roadside food stall or kirana store owners — their names are not on any payroll or pension plans or tax registers and yet, remove them and life in urban and semi-urban areas would be paralysed. Like now.

Invisible, taken for granted, they are treated with indifference in the best of times and callousness and cruelty in the worst, as the spectacle of migrant workers walking hundreds of miles on hot and dusty roads to go back home showed. It evoked the words from the Woody Guthrie song, “I ain’t got no home in this world anymore”. For some of them, this proved to be literally and tragically true, whether due to death or the hostile reception they faced back home. They left their homes in search of a better life, to support their families back home. Yet, their adopted homes did not own them up when the chips were down.

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Hindustan Times, 8 May, 2020, https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/the-indispensability-of-labour-in-reviving-india-s-economic-engine/story-SN06z8SlkZYnuVtVKnvqOL.html?fbclid=IwAR0AVlOxttKwJ7sc1sXb2EMJBA1X54EIp3ud5GEx5vSdwE1wtHEA7mY7F2k


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