-Newsclick.in About 45,000 contractual workers have been working under MGNREGA for the last 14 years and most of them are in a vulnerable situation due to the negligence of the government. Many workers are committing suicide due to financial constraints or due to a lack of medical care...' Lucknow: Having not had a since increase in their honorarium over four and a half years of the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government, around...
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Why India should spend more on its rural employment scheme -Shreehari Paliath & Geeta Devi
-IndiaSpend.com/ Scroll.in Although the demand for work under MGNREGS was the highest ever after the lockdown-triggered reverse migration in 2020, the Centre reduced funds for 2021. Prem Lal, 39, has had a horrid time since the national lockdown in 2020. Soon after the announcement in March, like many stranded migrant workers, he made the arduous journey back home. He walked nearly 1,200 km from Pune, where he worked as a painter, to...
More »Sarpanch Union marches to Punjab CM’s residence over MGNREGA dues
-The Tribune Patiala: Members of the Sarpanch (Panchayat) Union of Punjab took out a protest march against pending MGNREGA payments and development works in rural areas, in Patiala on Monday. Amid rain, over 1,000 sarpanches, panches and their supporters gathered atthe PUDA ground and marched towards the CM’s residence in the noon. The protesters said their demands weren’t heard by the ministers. Ravinder Singh Rinku (Gurney), state vice-president of the union, said,...
More »Construction Workers Try to Protect Rights Achieved After A Long Struggle in India -Bharat Dogra
-Countercurrents.org In the first week of August construction workers from several parts of the country organized protests in Delhi and submitted memorandum of their demands to the union government, including the Labor Minister and the Prime Minister. Although the number of those joining the protest was kept low keeping in view COVID related precautions regarding travel and gatherings, construction workers from North to South were represented with representatives from Jammu and Kashmir...
More »Official data corroborates deepening of livelihood crisis in urban areas during the 2020 nationwide lockdown
The recently released quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data broadly confirms the dip in employment and jobs during the countrywide lockdown period, followed by a certain degree of recovery in the post-lockdown months last year as have been indicated by various survey-based studies and research papers. The quarterly bulletin on PLFS provides data on key employment and unemployment indicators i.e. Unemployment Rate (UR), Worker Population Ratio (WPR) and Labour...
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