-Down to Earth A shift in lifestyles, COVID-19 pandemic has changed the game for Aminabad’s locksmiths. Most say they do not want their children to get into this occupation Samir Khan sits cross-legged on the side of street in Amindabad — one of the oldest neighbourhoods of Lucknow — with a heap of unfinished keys, a file and a small hammer. There is a police station on the opposite side. He...
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UP: Anganwadi Workers Threaten Statewide Protests over Promised Allowances -Abdul Alim Jafri
-Newsclick.in The union alleged that despite the BJP’s election manifesto in 2017 promising to improve their work conditions and increasing remuneration for Anganwadi workers within 120 days, nothing of the sort has happened. Lucknow: Accusing the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government of misleading Anganwadi workers, the Anganwadi Karamchari Union in the state has threatened a state-wide protest if the state government fails to increase the allowance of the workers soon. It was...
More »Nearly one in two Indians have poor quality of life : Danone India-CII survey
-The Hindu Business Line The survey was conducted by research agency IPSOS across eight Indian cities With the country grappling with the pandemic, nearly one out of two Indians were found to have a poor quality of life, according to a survey released by Danone India in collaboration with CII. The survey was conducted by research agency IPSOS across eight Indian cities with a sample size of 2,762 respondents, and scored them on...
More »'Supreme Court Ordered to Kill the Poor': Thousands Now Homeless After Khori Gaon Demolition -Naomi Barton
-TheWire.in 'When I made this house myself brick by brick, where were they then?' New Delhi: A few weeks after the Supreme Court ordered the demolition of the residential properties in Khori Gaon, bulldozers began to destroy the settlement under police and Army presence. Referred to by the Court as an encroachment, the settlement contains over 10,000 homes, with over 1 lakh residents (for scale, this is little under the population of the...
More »COVID-19 in UP: No Food, No Money, No MGNREGA Work, Second Wave Forcing Migrant Workers to Die by Suicide -Abdul Alim Jafri
-Newsclick.in According to union leaders, due to the panchayat polls from April to May in Uttar Pradesh, there was a halt in MGNREGS work, and the demand for labourers further slumped due to the complete lockdown that followed soon after. Lucknow: Brindaban Banjara (40), a security in-charge at Paragon footwear in Nangloi area of Delhi used to earn Rs 22,000 per month before the pandemic hit. But, within a span of three...
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