-The Hindu/PTI The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed by activists Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan. A fresh PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre and authorities to pay full wages to MGNREGA Workers for the entire period of the nationwide lockdown. The 21-day lockdown from March 25 was announced by the government to prevent the spread of the...
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Perils of lockdown and informal sector Workers: Reflections in the time of Covid-19 -Amrita Ghatak & Kingshuk Sarkar
-Vikalp.ind.in The unprecedented fear of Covid-19 leading to ‘social distancing’ through lockdown in the entire India has yet again unfolded the plight of informal sector Workers even in the midst of a universal public health crisis worldwide. The lockdown, for a huge number of informal sector Workers is associated with the loss of livelihood; but for others engaged in low-valued essential Works such as home delivery, scavenging and cleaning the society,...
More »Three in four COVID-19 cases between 21 to 60 years age group in India -Maitri Porecha
-The Hindu Business Line Every three in four cases that are infected with novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in India belong to active Working population between the age group of 21 to 60 years as on date. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that of these 75 per cent of the confirmed cases, the maximum cases up to 42 percent are between 21 to 40 years of age, while 33 percent are...
More »Sudden Lockdown and Unfolding of an Immense Tragedy -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in With the Centre being both niggardly and thoughtless in the matter of relief following the unplanned lockdown, state governments, which are desperately short of funds, will be left holding the baby. The tragic irony could not have been more complete. The country is under lockdown, but last week thousands of migrant Workers were thronging bus stands or marching on the roads, making a mockery of it; the aim of the lockdown...
More »Can Behavioural Science Help Address the Fears of Migrant Workers?
-TheWire.in As India moves into the start of the second week of the 21-day lockdown period imposed nationwide by the Government of India, it helps to examine the manner in which migrant Workers have been coping with the lockdown’s requirements. Migrant Workers have been moving out of India’s cities to their respective towns villages, many of them on foot due to unavailability of transport. Please click here to read more. ...
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