-The Indian Express The report on money granted for Work that was never done and employment that had never been created assumes significance as the state government has launched three schemes under MGNREGA, anticipating Work demand from the nearly 5 lakh migrant Workers who have returned home after lockdown hit livelihood in cities. Ranchi: A probe into Work done under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in a block of...

-The Hindu This is an extreme underestimation, going by the other assessments made by Central and State governments, including Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s estimate of 8 crore stranded migrants. The Chief Labour Commissioner’s (CLC) office has counted over 26 lakh migrant Workers stranded across the country, of which 10% are in relief camps or shelter homes, while 43% are in situ at Workplaces and 46% are in other clusters. This is an extreme...

-TheWire.in It is high time migrant Workers were included in the ambit of the public distribution system. The government’s proposal for ‘one nation one ration card’ is a longstanding need for migrant labourers across the country. The proposed measure will provide Workers not only with monthly food entitlements wherever they are living for Work, but also improve their nutritional status. Tracing developments in the public distribution system (PDS), it can be seen that...

-Hindustan Times The new guidelines make the testing criteria in Delhi tighter than those issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research on May 18. The Delhi government on Tuesday released a document underlining its new testing strategy which, counter-intuitively restricts the access to the tests further even as the number of cases in the state continue to grow. The new guidelines make the testing criteria in Delhi tighter than those issued by...

-The Telegraph Seasonal sowing, MGNREGA boost prospects The grim employment scenario in urban India got aggravated while the rural sector showed some improvement in the last week of May, with researchers attributing the uptick in the villages to seasonal sowing activities and increase in Work under the MGNREGA while calling the overall condition critical. Data released by private research group Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) show that the unemployment rate for the...