-NDTV Amid an expected global downturn of economy following the COVID-19 pandemic and the related lockdown, the outlook for India has been particularly gloomy. New Delhi: The coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown has pushed the government to take the ordinance route to formulate three of the four labour codes it is planning. The codes have already been introduced in parliament. One of them - the code on wages, which clubs together the...
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Coronavirus: Industrial activity can be restarted in at least 15 sectors, says Industries Department
-The Hindu They are key to improve economic activity and liquidity, says Industries Ministry The Commerce and Industries Ministry has called for far-reaching measures to be taken to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown, urging the Home Ministry to allow relaxations of the restrictions on a number of industry sectors. In a letter to Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla on Saturday, Industries Secretary Guruprasad Mohapatra said “more activities with reasonable safeguards must...
More »Lockdown: Migrant workers in Surat come out on road demanding salaries -Mahesh Langa
-The Hindu More than 1000 persons assembled on street demanding to return to their home States. AHMEDABAD: Hundreds of migrant workers in Gujarat’s Surat city on Friday late night came out on roads demanding salaries and asking to let them go back to their natives. They took to torching vegetable carts and vandalising properties and shops along the road in Lasanaka area, a migrant hub in the city. Most of them work in power...
More »Coronavirus: Indian labourers in GCC countries are in dire need of help, say experts -Varghese K George
-The Hindu They are at the bottom of the pyramid and have little access to healthcare, say migration experts S. Irudaya Rajan and Ginu Zacharaia Oommen. Migrants labourers have been among the worst hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most Indian migrants in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are at the bottom of the pyramid in their host countries. Infected in large numbers, and with limited access to healthcare, that is...
More »Coronavirus lockdown: Choked supply lines to be cleared -Nistula Hebbar
-The Hindu Harvesting and procurement of of food grains form priority New Delhi: Stoppered supply lines with trucks waiting on highways, the ongoing harvest season and procurement of food grains in various parts of the country are some of the issues that will inform the kind of lockdown the country will continue to have post April 14. Government sources said that smoothening the supply lines that have still to be seamless and the...
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