Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi wants an urban job scheme on the lines of the MGNREGS, started in 2006 through legislation and the budgetary allocation for which each year is around Rs 40,000 crore. The proposal, sent by his urban development department, is with the ministry of urban development and poverty alleviation. "We are urbanising very fast and MIgration to cities is creating a huge employment gap. An NREGA-like programme would...
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Child labourers' plight: Underpaid and overworked by Puja Marwaha
For most people in cities, Labour Day (or May Day, which was on May 1) was just another public holiday that nobody thought too much about. On a day marked to give voice to the rights of the Indian work force, perhaps one ought to consider those who have been forced to join their ranks too soon - child labourers. According to government estimates, an astounding 42.02% of the Indian workforce...
More »Orissa: MGNREGA seems very hard to detain MIgration by Alok Kumar Padhi
MGNREG Act came in to existence to check out poverty & distress MIgration. It also brought with the hope to create some permanent asset for the village. According to this Act came in to existence, then guide line also presented. Officials & staffs also appointed to implement the Act from state level to village level. Govt. is spending more & more money for staffs, fuels, different register for office use...
More »NAC draft Communal Violence Bill sent to Home, Law Ministries by Smita Gupta
The draft Communal Violence Bill, prepared by a Working Group (WG) of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC), goes beyond existing legislation in four significant ways: it recognises identity-based or targeted crimes and organised mass violence as special offences, while placing accountability of public officials at the heart of the law, with varying penalties for dereliction of duty. Finally, it provides for the creation of a National Authority and...
More »Crossing borders below the radar, and making it back by Malia Politzer
Gary Singh’s abduction ordeal illustrates the dangers faced by those who rely on smugglers to make their way overseas One day in 2006, 18-year-old Gubachan “Gary” Singh, an illegal immigrant in Manila, Philippines, was on his way to work when he was approached by four stocky Filipinos. One pulled out a gun, pressing the barrel into the small of his back, while another blindfolded him and shoved him into a van....
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