-CaravanMagazine.in On 15 August 2021, marking India’s 75th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a crowd-packed Red Fort. “Just as we are making sure that no person or no class should be left behind in the development journey of society, similarly no part of the country, no corner of the country, should be left behind,” he told the crowd. “Development should be all-round, development should be all-pervasive, development should be...
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FIRs, intimidation, and death: Reporting on sand mining remains perilous in MP -Akanksha Kumar
-Newslaundry.com Journalists face wrath of authorities and illegal sand mining mafia MP’s Khargone. Pradeep Gangle, 35, was following up on a lead on illegal sand mining on July 1 earlier this year. He found mounds of sand stored in Khargone district’s Umar Khali village, which could potentially be loaded onto 1,000 trolleys. There are 30 designated spots in Khargone district where sand mining is allowed but this place in Umar Khali village...
More »From Remote Villages to Metro Cities, Scheme Workers Strike Work for Regularisation of Services -Ronak Chhabra
-Newsclick.in Led by the Joint Platform of Scheme Workers Federations, ASHAs, along with workers engaged in anganwadis, mid-Day meal scheme and National Health Mission also demanded a legislation on ‘right to universal healthcare’. New Delhi: Pushed to the brink after their jobs remained non-regularised since many years now, nearly one crore government-sponsored scheme workers staged a one-Day strike on FriDay, in what was termed as a “warning” action by the federations in...
More »NREGA Sangharsh Morcha demands higher wages, more working Days, employee insurance in letter to PM
-National Herald It has requested Union government to notify a wage rate of Rs 600 per Day for NREGA workers and allocation of work for 150 Days annually for each job card holding individual Flagging issues being faced by crores of MGNREGA workers, NREGA Sangharsh Morcha has requested the Union government to notify a wage rate of Rs 600 per Day for NREGA workers and allocation of work for 150 Days annually...
More »Delhi Master Plan 2041: How can planners create a worker-friendly city? -Malavika Narayan, Shalini Sinha & Avi Singh Majithia
-Scroll.in The economic vision laid out in the plan is divorced from the realities of urban employment in Delhi. In Delhi, the unplanned and the informal are not the exception. A vast section of the city’s residents live in informal settlements, and eight out of 10 workers are informally employed. Insecurity of work and tenure marks their Day-to-Day existence. Whether it be vending on the streets, picking and sorting waste from people’s...
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