-The Hindu Every government health scheme, including the one to fight COVID-19, needs ASHA Workers to implement it at the grassroots level. So why can’t they at least be paid on time? If Anita Sharma*, an ASHA Worker (or Accredited Social Health Activist), had a Twitter account, she could have tagged @drharshvardhan, the health minister, and introduced herself thus: My name is Anita. My job profile has changed since the coronavirus pandemic....
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Reset rural job policies, recognise women’s Work -Madhura Swaminathan
-The Hindu As India emerges from the lockdown, labour market policy has to reverse the pandemic’s gender-differentiated impact The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on women’s Work, but as official statistics do not capture women’s Work adequately and accurately, little attention has been paid to the consequences of the pandemic for women Workers and to the design of specific policies and programmes to assist them. A survey by the Azim Premji...
More »Forcing migrants to stay back in cities during lockdown worsened spread of coronavirus, study shows -Pavitra Mohan & Arpita Amin
-Scroll.in A doctor looks at the pattern of Covid-19 cases in Rajasthan. On March 25, India went into a nationwide lockdown that had been imposed with only four hours notice. The clampdown on travel resulted in millions of migrant Workers being trapped in cities that, even at best of times, are hostile to their needs. Faced with starvation and separation from families, lakhs of Workers started walking or cycling hundreds of kilometres back...
More »Weavers in Varanasi Pawn Jewellery, Houses for Survival - Abdul Alim Jafri
-Newsclick.in Weavers in Prime Minister Modi’s constituency, reeling under the triple blow of demonetisation, GST and lockdown, are on a week-long token protest against hiked electricity bills. Lucknow: To keep his home fires burning, Mohammad Obaid had to sell three handlooms and a wrapping machine that he had bought with his hard-earned money following demonetisation (November 2016) and the imposition of goods and services tax (GST). Now, the coronavirus pandemic-induced over three...
More »UP cane dues: This time, it’s worse -Piyush Srivastava
-The Telegraph Delay in clearing dues affecting Muzaffarnagar farmers as cultivation is their only source of income Lucknow: Sugarcane farmers in Muzaffarnagar have alleged that the eight sugar mills in the district have been delaying payments totalling Rs 1,300 crore, a perennial problem of late clearance of dues that is this time hurting the cultivators even more because of the economic crisis perpetrated by the pandemic. Preparing to protest while alleging that the...
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