-Newsclick.in No scheme touches them, no law reaches them – but they hope that a better deal for farmers will benefit them. At the Ghazipur border between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, Manish and a few of his friends have joined the farmers’ dharna only a few days back. They live in Baghpat district, barely a few dozen kilometres from the protest site but it could be another continent, or another age. “In the...
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Report Finds Many Migrant Workers in Madhya Pradesh Did Not Receive Govt Benefits
-TheWire.in The MP Migrant Workers Project found that 90% of migrant workers who returned to the state during the COVID-19 lockdown did not receive any kind of monetary assistance. New Delhi: Satish Ranjan* used to work in Pune as a construction worker. When the pandemic hit, he was forced to return to his home in Madhya Pradesh, like the lakhs of migrant workers who were forced to return – many by foot...
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-The Hindu/ PTI The labour ministry has sought feedback of stakeholders on the draft rules under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSH) Code, 2020. The feedback can be provided within 45 days starting Thursday (November 19). Thereafter, the ministry would finalise the rules to implement the OSH Code. “The Ministry of Labour and Employment has notified the draft rules under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, on November...
More »UP Scribe Attacked after Reporting on MGNREGA Irregularities; Journalist Body Questions Yogi's Silence -Abdul Alim Jafri
-Newsclick.in The journalist claims no action will be taken against his attackers as they belong to the ruling BJP. Lucknow: A senior journalist working with a local daily in Uttar Pradesh’s Lalitpur region was beaten up publicly and threatened allegedly by a local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and his sons while returning from work. Police have lodged a complaint against five people including the BJP leader. Journalist Vinay Tiwari, a resident of...
More »Why India’s migrant workers are returning to the cities they fled during the Covid-19 lockdown -Vikas Kumar
-Scroll.in A large section of migrant workers surveyed who want to return have a single earning member, with family sizes ranging from four to eight dependents. “I was very scared. What kind of a disease is this? How will I manage with my small children here? Whatever happens I will never return to Surat again.” Durgabai, an Adivasi woman migrant worker from Udaipur, Rajasthan, was recalling her horrendous experience during the Covid-19 lockdown...
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