-Newsclick.in Pinarayi Vijayan’s government is supplying food kits and distributing social security pension to ensure no one remains hungry or destitute The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government is supplying food kits and distributing social security pension as celebrations for the harvest festival of Onam, which falls on August 21, have already started. Despite the Opposition’s criticism of these measures in the light of the daily spike in Covid cases, the Pinarayi Vijayan government...
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A dharna here, a court victory there: How Rajasthan villages try to keep their land from solar firms -Rishika Pardikar
-Down to Earth Encroachment of pastureland was possible because government doesn't recognise them as village commons, say locals Some Indian states saw a string of protests over the last couple of months against renewable energy projects on village land, even as the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic was raging in the country. On July 6, 2021, police officials lathi charged locals participating in a dharna against plans to lay electricity lines across pasturelands...
More »Raging Pandemic and Unreliable Monsoon: The Unending Sorrow of the Homeless -Ritwika Mitra
-Newsclick.in According to the Census 2011 the country has more than 1.7 million homeless people, among whom 938,384 live in urban areas. However, the number of homeless persons remains grossly under-documented till date. Sultana and her husband, Sheikh Mofizul, are still struggling to come to terms with the death of their newborn. There is a lot to deal with – the loss of livelihood, death of a 13-day-old child, the deteriorating health...
More »Modinomics’ Legacy ― Labour Traffic Now Flows From Factories to Farms -MK Venu
-TheWire.in The ‘vikas’ train has begun to chug the wrong way, as it were. A worrisome aspect of the Indian economy is reflected in the share of employment in agriculture dramatically rising from 42.5% of the total employed in 2018-19 to 45.6% in 2019-20. This may signify an unusually large movement of labour from industry or services sectors to agriculture. The total number of persons employed in India varies between 400 million and...
More »Child trafficking in Odisha continues unabated: 20 teenagers rescued -Hrusikesh Mohanty
-Down to Earth The children, mostly girls, were rescued from a railway station Child trafficking has seen a spurt in Odisha — especially in tribal-dominated districts of the state — following the resumption of train services amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic. At least 20 adolescents, mostly girls (18) aged 15-17, have been rescued by activists from non-profit Childline Foundation of India (CFI), from Berhampur railway station in Ganjam district from July...
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