-The Hindu India risks losing benefits of the demographic dividend by not creating enough jobs for new entrants, warns Professor Mehrotra. Santosh K Mehrotra, Professor of Economics at the Centre for Informal Sector & Labour Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University and author of the recently launched book Reviving Jobs: An Agenda For Growth said the current reverse MIgration has set the country back by 15 years, and stressed that the economic stimulus...
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The migrant crisis has exposed how we truly treat our workers -Himanshu
-Livemint.com Weakening labour laws just when they need greater social cover shows a lack of empathy for them The MIgration of thousands of workers trying to reach their home states has woken up the State, media and the middle class to a new category of citizens: migrants. Ever since the lockdown was announced in the last week of March, they have travelled long distances, dodging the police in state after state, to...
More »Re-imagining food systems crucial for climate, economic resilience: Nutrition report -Chinmayi Shalya
-Down to Earth Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic pushes government to act on reforms of food systems with urgency Food systems must be inclusive, local and diverse to address food security and malnutrition and build economic and climate resilience, according to the latest 2020 Global Nutrition Report. The report — released by the Stakeholder group — placed equity as the cornerstone of all efforts to overcome global malnutrition and insisted on policy...
More »When a filmmaker walks the mile with migrants, from Delhi to Bihar -Dipanita Nath
-The Indian Express National Award-winning filmmaker Vinod Kapri travels 1,232 km with a group of labourers, as he tells the story of the good, the bad and the unexpected Over phone, Delhi-based filmmaker Vinod Kapri sounds tired. It is the only sign of the journey of more than 1,232 km that he has made during the pandemic. Kapri accompanied a group of seven construction labourers from Delhi to Bihar to understand, first...
More »The Precarious Journey: Internal Migrants and the Pandemic in India -Sumeetha M
-TheCitizen.in Their choice is simple: Either die of the pandemic or die of hunger MIgration - or mobility of the human race is not a new concept. Mostly migrants are economic migrants, searching for means to live or visualizing MIgration as a means to increase their income. When we analyse human MIgration theories, it is implicit that the future gains from income, is what that prompts migrants to stay back in the...
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