-The Telegraph Tablighi stigma and need for government support come up during hindi-belt survey Job loss rates have been similar in rural and urban areas but the perceived “surety of losing Work” is higher in the rural areas and the highest among Muslims among communities, a survey of 1,405 Workers across nine Hindi-speaking states has found. “The survey revealed that the perception of uncertainty about future of Work was the highest among women...
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Communities remain hungry amid lockdown, migrant Workers worst hit: Study -Ritwika Mitra
-The New Indian Express Ninety two per cent of the respondents had lost their jobs, said the survey which covered both migrant and non-migrant Workers. NEW DELHI: Communities struggled with hunger with loss of livelihood amid the lockdown with inter-state and intra-state migrant Workers being the worst hit, according to a survey by Centre for Equity Studies in collaboration with Delhi Research Group and Karwan-E-Mohabbat. Ninety two per cent of the respondents had...
More »Rs 50,000 crore, 116 districts, 6 states: PM Modi launches mega Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan -Meenakshi Ray
-Hindustan Times Chief ministers of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Odisha will participate in the virtual launch from Bihar’s Telihar village. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a massive rural public Works scheme, the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan, on Saturday to create jobs for millions of migrant Workers who returned home during the coronavirus pandemic. PM Modi launched the scheme worth Rs 50,000 crore through video conference in presence...
More »The Peshwa’s tax holiday: How the Mughals and Marathas dealt with distress migration -Mario da Penha
-The Hindu Diverse regimes in Early Modern India often saw the distress migration of rural inhabitants when, much like today, displacement became the forced choice between hope and hunger The scale of the migrant labourer exodus from the precariousness of cities to the security of their home villages has few parallels in Indian history. Economist Chinmay Tumbe estimates that by the end of May, no fewer than 30 million Indians had moved...
More »Contours of post-Covid economy suggest a new frameWork of employment -Ashish Kundra
-The Indian Express The current crisis should force a discussion on the levels of social protection which should be available to gig Workers including wage protection, health benefits and safety assurance. COVID-19 has induced a domino effect in the global job market. A few days ago, a strange message landed in my LinkedIn inbox: Desperation was written all over the poignant plea for a job opening. Jobless since March, with an aged...
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