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Mandi arrivals drop sharply, raise concerns about hoarding -Rajalakshmi Nirmal

-The Hindu Business Line With farmers selling more produce outside mandis, there is no record of transactions Arrivals in mandis across the country are significantly lower this year. Only five-to-seven bags out of every 10 of grains, pulses and spices, produced by farmers, have come to the market in the last six months. An analysis of the production, procurement and mandi arrival numbers indicates that there is a large quantity of unaccounted floating...

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Rise in work demand: 12 districts shoot past whole fiscal’s NREGA work generation budget in under 4 months -Harikishan Sharma

-The Indian Express Barring Mirzapur in UP, none of these districts is included in the official government list of 116 districts that received most returning migrant workers during the lockdown, and where the government had launched the PM Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan on June 20. New Delhi: At least 12 districts have exceeded their annual job creation targets by generating substantially higher numbers of person-days’ work between April 1 and July 21,...

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These Odisha migrant workers in Tamil Nadu are glad to have missed the train -Satyasundar Barik

-The Hindu As infections surge in Odisha, many guest workers are relieved to have stayed on Like several other migrant workers from Odisha, Sumant Naik made innumerable calls throughout May to enquire about a train back home from Perundurai in Erode; he also weighed the costs of returning by bus. Despite several calls, the journey back did not materialise. Now two months later, as the pandemic induced lockdown has eased in Tamil Nadu,...

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Women are bearing a disproportionate burden of pandemic, its consequences. This needs to be addressed -Neera Saggi

-The Indian Express This is not the first time women have been left to fend for themselves and it is not the last time that they would be forced to identify their mode of survival whether in “ghare" or “baire” — within or outside her home. Society, grappling with the COVID-19 virus, the associated health crisis, and issues of economic revival, has missed out on the signals that reflect the impact of...

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Changes to labour laws will put most workers out of legal protection: Unions -Sharath S Srivatsa

-The Hindu They say several crucial laws have been amended to tilt the balance in favour of industries Bengaluru: As the State government unveiled the New Industrial Policy, 2020–25, to attract investors, trade unions are protesting over the manner in which several crucial labour laws have been amended to tilt the balance in favour of industries. The sweeping changes brought to Factories Act, Industrial Disputes Act, and Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act,...

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