-The Telegraph Uncle of young migrant Worker flying in with body ‘at own cost’ Calcutta: A 17-year-old migrant Worker from East Burdwan’s Purbasthali died in Gujarat’s Morbi bridge collapse that has claimed at least 134 lives since Sunday evening. Habibul Sheikh, 17, a high school dropout, who went to Morbi to Work at his uncle’s jewellery shop 10 months ago, visited the “hanging bridge” in Morbi with four other migrant Workers from Bengal...

-The Hindu Allow more flexibility at the ground level, says internal study commissioned by the Ministry of Rural Development An internal study commissioned by the Ministry of Rural Development has argued for decentralisation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), allowing for more “flexibility” at the ground level.  The Ministry recently made public the report of the sixth Common Review Mission which surveyed seven States — Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh,...

--Press release by National Coalition on the Education Emergency dated 31st October, 2022 More than 12 organisations and several individuals were part of a national consultation where issues faced by migrant children were discussed and actionable recommendations were proposed.  Bengaluru, Mumbai and New Delhi, October 31, 2022: Not-for-profit organisations and civil society institutions have demanded that migrant children be provided the right to quality education immediately and have proposed an actionable frameWork...

-Newsclick.in The initiatives by Odisha and Rajasthan governments have prompted political leaders from other states to raise demands for similar action from their state governments. Kolkata: The recent decisions by two state governments – Odisha and Rajasthan – abolishing contractual engagement of people for government jobs have come as a morale booster for trade unions. The unions have been agitating for several years demanding contract Workers' regularisation. The General Administration and Public...

-PTI/ ThePrint.in The ‘tiger widows’ of Sundarbans: Caught between the jungle and the rising sea Sundarbans: With both his sons jobless and money running out, Biswajit Mistry left home one summer morning to venture deep into the dense jungles of the Sundarbans in search of raw honey that would fetch a better price. His body was recovered two days later, mauled and bearing unmistakable signs of a tiger attack. More than a year...