Everyone knows how much food prices have risen in the last few years. Not everyone, however, knows how much costs have spiralled for those who produce the food you and I eat. Data on daily wage rates for agricultural operations, compiled by the Labour Bureau at Shimla, show huge increases to have taken place in most States during 2009 and 2010. Andhra Pradesh, for instance, has seen farm wage rates – the...
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Domestic worker wages by Radhika Ramaseshan
The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council has asked the Centre to ensure payment of the statutory minimum wages to domestic workers. In a note sent on May 4 to the government, which is framing a national policy for domestic workers, the council asked it to enshrine the right to pay without gender discrimination as laid down in the Equal Remuneration Act of 1976. Domestic workers were on a par with other workers...
More »NREGS scam in Tapi: Woman sarpanch in dock
In the second such case Vyara taluka of Tapi district, a woman sarpanch of Kumbhia village has been accused of forging signatures of NREGS workers and including ghost names of beneficiaries in the roll muster to siphon off Rs 4.18 lakh. A complaint in this connection has been made to Taluka Development Officer and District Development Officer by the aggrieved workers. The fund was meant for construction of roads and three...
More »NREGA: Govt to look into FIR filed in Re 1 wage
The state government on Tuesday assured that it will examine the First Information Report filed for paying extremely low wages to MGNREGA workers in Gudliya village in Tonk district. The FIR had charged six village mates for paying just Re 1 as wages to about 99 workers. However, after protests by members of various organisations during the monthly meeting of NREGA, minister for rural development Bharat Singh assured that the department...
More »Industry out of poll plot by Madhuparna Das
The Tatas pulled out of Singur; the Salims of Indonesia out of Nandigram. What is still ticking is the Jindals’ Rs-35,000-crore, 10-million-tonne steel plant at Salboni. It has the potential to churn out the first industrial success story for whoever captures power in West Bengal after May 13. Along with the steel plant, a 1,000-MW power project to is coming up. At one point, Salboni had appeared to have the makings of...
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