-Scroll.in Food distress is acute among MIGrant and working-class families. Bhalswa is home to Delhi’s largest open garbage dump – and working-class families who can’t afford to live in a less toxic place. Around noon on Saturday, a queue snaked around a bend in the road leading into the neighbourhood. Food was being distributed inside a community hall by the Shri Shiv Sevak Delhi Mahashakti Group, an organisation that runs kitchens during...
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Statesmanship requires taking people along; when basic security is denied, hope dies -Nikhil Dey & Aruna Roy
-The Indian Express Prime Minister demanded discipline and sacrifice from the people, while offering no measures to alleviate distress of those who have lost their dignity and livelihoods. Millions of MIGrant workers, and other vulnerable groups, have lost their livelihoods, income security, and sense of dignity in three short weeks. They knew that they were vulnerable to the virus, but for them, the cure of an extended lockdown is already worse than...
More »Farming under lockdown: Short on labourers, a long harvest -Vikas Vasudeva & Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Even though a record crop is expected this year, the lockdown may have robbed farmers of the chance to reap profits. There are no MIGrant labourers to help with harvesting and procurement, and no transport facilities to take the produce to markets in many parts of the country, report Vikas Vasudeva and Priscilla Jebaraj Jagtar Singh is a man in a hurry. It’s April 15, and with temperatures starting to...
More »MIGrant’s last earning before suicide: Rs 2,500 from sale of phone -Sakshi Dayal
-The Indian Express Officials from the district administration also insisted the 35-year-old was “mentally disturbed”. Gurgaon (Haryana): On Thursday morning, 35-year-old Chhabu Mandal, a MIGrant from Bihar who worked as a painter in Gurgaon, sold his phone for Rs 2,500 and used the money to purchase a portable fan and some ration to feed his family — his wife, her parents, and his four children, the youngest five months old. His wife Poonam...
More »Across India, workers complain that employers used lockdown to defraud them of wages they are owed -Rajiv Khandelwal
-Scroll.in It is imperative that this money is reclaimed and not treated as an unavoidable collateral loss in the fight against Covid-19. On March 25, my colleagues and I at the Aajeevika Bureau, which tries to address the economic and socio-legal problems of MIGrant workers in Gujarat and Rajasthan, woke up to dozens of messages of utter distress, both on our personal phones and on our toll-free Labour Line. Among the people who...
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