-The Hindu No timeline for rolling out 4 labour codes yet Implementing the Code on Social Security, 2020 and bringing the maximum number of Workers under the ambit of social security schemes were the top priorities of the government, according to Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav. Mr. Yadav told The Hindu on Tuesday that the focus on expanding social security schemes would be discussed during the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation’s meeting on...
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Price rise is driving Delhi’s food vendors to financial collapse – and their customers to hunger -Vijayta Lalwani
-Scroll.in Shooting oil prices have made food more expensive. And daily wagers who struggle to find Work have less money to spare. It was past 3 pm on Thursday when Manikchand Lohar ate his first meal – two parathas with a side of vegetables bought from a stall in Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar. The 50-year-old rickshaw puller had started Work at 9 am, but he had barely made enough to pay Rs 30...
More »Gujarat’s Killing Cane Fields for Women: It’s All Work, no Rest in Dang district -Damyantee Dhar
-Newsclick.in Story of the tribal women of South Gujarat who form nearly half the Workforce of 2.5 lakh sugarcane Workers yet are the worst exploited in the sugar industry Manisha Sunilbhai Shinde, a tribal sugarcane Worker of Jarsol village in Dang, Gujarat, is a mother of one at the age of 20. Married to a sugarcane labourer at the age of 15, she went from Working in her parent’s koyta unit to...
More »Survey details ‘catastrophic’ impact of school closures across India
-The Hindu 37% of rural children have dropped out, says report of study on 15 States The prolonged closure of primary and upper primary schools during the pandemic months has led to “catastrophic consequences” for school students, particularly in rural India, says an emergency report. Based on the School Children’s Online and Offline Learning (SCHOOL) survey conducted by researchers, who Worked in coordination with eminent economist Jean Dreze, the ‘Emergency Report on School...
More »Rs 360 crore scam in the making of NRC: Assam NGO -Kaushik Deka
-IndiaToday.in The NGO, whose PIL in Supreme Court led to the update of NRC, now claims financial irregularities in the process Two years after the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published in Assam, an allegation of large-scale financial irregularities in the process of preparing the document have surfaced. The allegation has been levelled by Assam Public Works (APW), the NGO that first filed a PIL in the Supreme Court demanding update,...
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