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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why India’s migrants deserve a better deal -Priya Deshingkar

Why India’s migrants deserve a better deal -Priya Deshingkar

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published Published on May 18, 2020   modified Modified on May 25, 2020

-Livemint.com

* Roughly 100 million migrant workers are directly responsible for 10% of the GDP. Why are they still so invisible?

* There has been an unwillingness to collect better data on circular migrants and understand how they affect the economy. This is shocking for a country that runs on migrant labour

BRIGHTON/ LONDON: Images of stranded migrants and their long arduous journeys back home will remain seared in our collective memories of the covid-19 pandemic in India. According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), an estimated 122 million people lost their jobs in April alone and three-quarters of these were small traders and wage labourers.

No doubt circular migrants formed a significant proportion of those affected. While earlier government responses seemed to offer little or nothing, the government appears to have woken up somewhat to the unfolding human tragedy, announcing a 3,500 crore food support programme for migrants last week. Exactly how the government will implement the programme is not clear, obsessed as it is with establishing identity and registration when most circular migrants lack these documents.

Equally crucial is the lack of critical data on circular migrants in terms of who they are, where they work, how they are recruited, and what their vulnerabilities are to shocks such as covid-19. Governments in India clearly have no systematic understanding of their existence and had not anticipated the scale of the migrant exodus. The crisis should spur the government to collect better data and work closely with other stakeholders who have their ear to the ground.

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Livemint.com, 18 May, 2020, https://www.livemint.com/news/india/why-india-s-migrants-deserve-a-better-deal-11589818749274.html


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