-The Hindu It is shocking that those who build fantasy cities not only can’t own a home of their own but also can’t vote in elections, says political scientist Ashwani Kumar Political scientist Ashwani Kumar, whose forthcoming co-edited book titled MIGration and Mobility is to be out soon, speaks on MIGration, inter-State workers and amendment to the Inter-State MIGrant Workers Act, 1979. * The COVID-19 crisis for India has also become a humanitarian...

-Scroll.in One simple strategy: protect birds that eat the predatory insects. As India struggles to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, it faces a new challenge. Several parts of the country have experienced heavy infestations of locusts – an insect that devours crops and foliage, often leaving devastation in its wake. If there’s a silver lining to this cloud, it is that India has two centuries of experience in dealing with locust swarms. India’s Locust...

-Livemint.com * A ground report reveals pervasive hunger and undernourishment in rural India awash with returning MIGrants * Just providing rice and wheat at a highly subsidized price may not be enough when day jobs are scant and families have no cash in hand BANDA: Thanks to an all-familiar power cut in the evening, it’s pitch dark in Jhandupurva village. A few torch lights from smart phones pierce through the darkness and illuminate...

-Hindustan Times Less than 57% of the people who sought work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) have received jobs under the programme. At a time when millions of MIGrant workers who have returned home to the hinterland are looking towards it for a livelihood, the government’s flagship rural jobs programme has got off to a slow start in the new financial year, government data show, amid the...

-The Hindu There are four things that need to be done in the country in the wake of the pandemic crisis When we hear the word MIGration, we think of Kerala and West Asia, or the United States and the West. However, the number of Indians who have MIGrated over the past decades to these geographies is minuscule compared to the vastness of the movement within the country. A few years ago,...