-India Spend Mumbai: Poverty and lack of opportunity in their hometowns drove 93 million Indians from disadvantaged castes and tribes in 2011 to migrate to other areas within their states in the hope of securing education or employment. However. they continue to face social segregation, labour market discrimination and barriers to accessing the most basic services, finds an analysis of Census data and research studies by India Migration Now, a Mumbai-based...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Bengaluru Police demolishes makeshift houses of migrants as CAA-NRC debate rages on -Nolan Pinto
-IndiaToday.in According to sources, a police notice was sent to the owner of the site on January 11. The notice stated that in survey no. 35/2 in Kariyammana Agrahara near Bellandur Lake, there were illegal sheds and possible Bangladeshis present. Bengaluru: Lalitha hails from Raichur and Karanna from Koppal in Karnataka. They stand in front of us showing their Aadhaar Cards demanding to know why their makeshift homes have been demolished by...
More »One state, one ration card: MP reforms its Aadhaar-enabled PDS, helps migrant workers -Milind Ghatwai
-The Indian Express Madhya Pradesh government has now found a solution. Under the Aadhaar-enabled PDS, the respective grain quota is given to the nominee after verification of his biometric details. It’s not uncommon for beneficiaries of the public distribution system (PDS) to miss out on their quota of monthly food grains for reasons ranging from disability to old age to failure of the biometric verification system. But the Madhya Pradesh government has now...
More »Data from various international & national sources contradict the narrative that immigrants & refugees have flooded the country in recent years
Against the backdrop of National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC), which is expected to be conducted nationwide, there are media reports about detention centres being constructed in various parts of the country. Although media reports indicate the Government denying any connection between NRIC and National Population Register, a reply to unstarred question no 4380 (to be answered on 21st April 2015 in the Lok Sabha) by the Minister of State...
More »Justice Madan Lokur, former judge of the Supreme Court, interviewed by Bhadra Sinha (Hindustan Times)
-Hindustan Times Article 14 of the Constitution is not limited only to reasonable [actually rational] classification. What is important is that the rational classification must have a reasonable nexus with the object sought to be achieved by the legislation, says Justice Lokur Justice Madan Lokur, a former judge of the Supreme Court, says the proviso to the definition of illegal immigrant in the amended citizenship act is unconstitutional if one agrees with...
More »