-DailyMail.Co.Uk Millions of domestic workers in Indian homes are a part of an informal and "invisible" workforce due to absence of a specific legislation meant for their protection, the International Labour Organisation said on Wednesday. The number of maids has gone up by nearly 70 per cent from 2001 to 2010 with an estimated 10 million maids and nannies in India, the ILO says. According to the National Sample Survey (NSS) 2004-05, there...
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India's urban work boom is leaving women behind-Akshat Rathi
-The Hindu Under India's labour laws, women engaged in "informal" work - such as domestic work - have few workplace rights. This makes it harder for women to have sustainable jobs, let alone a career. Nearly 400 million people live in cities in India and during the next 40 years that number will more than double. Not only is the proportion of India's total female population that is economically active is among...
More »Tapping the solar power -MA Siraj
-Deccan Herald Karnataka: Bellary district is gifted with abundant sunshine. Yet, not much thought has been given to tap solar energy and replace the polluting fossil fuels. But Yallappa D, an agricultural engineer, is making a difference, though in his own humble way. Yallappa's creative mind had been at work since he joined BTech course in Agriculture Engineering at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Raichur five years ago. Driven by a...
More »Fistful of grains: women SHG’s novel initiative helps MP's poor -Ritesh Mishra
-The Hindustan Times Indore/ Alirajpur (Madhya Pradesh): The fist is not always the manifestation of fury. In a remote village of Madhya Pradesh's Alirajpur district, it is the symbol of compassion and the desire to help the needy. In a dual fight against hunger and unscrupulous moneylenders, a group of women of Sakdi village in Sondwa block -- 250 kms west of Indore - collect fistfuls of grain in every meeting...
More »The faultlines of Birbhum -Madhuparna Das
-The Indian Express The gangrape may have brought the tribal councils of this West Bengal district to notoriety, but it wasn't the first sexual abuse on their orders. What is more at play here though is growing outside interference in a region considered a vote bank, writes Madhuparna Das. On January 29 evening, 900 people of a village in Birbhum district's Labhpur block gathered near the hut of their headman. The hut,...
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