-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 28 July 2022 Based on the findings NREGA Sangharsh Morcha put forth the following demands: 1. All the documents pertaining to correspondence between the Central Government and the State Government on MGNREGA since 2019, including the reports of central team visits and action taken, should be made public. 2. The Labour Budget for West Bengal for the FY 2022-23 has to be approved immediately by the...
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Anganwadi Federation Urges Centre and States to Implement SC Ruling on Gratuity -Ronak Chhabra
-Newsclick.in In a convention held at BTR Bhawan in the national capital, the CITU-backed federation also gave a call for a four-day ‘Mahapadav’ from July 26 in New Delhi. New Delhi: Demanding that the central and the state governments provide gratuity, a basic social security measure, to all the anganwadi caregivers in the country, the All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (AIFAWH) on Saturday called for a four-day ‘Mahapadav’ from...
More »MGNREGS hits record with 3.1 crore families seeking work in May. It’s a cry for help from Bharat -Sayantan Bera and Nikhil Rampal
-ThePrint.in From a record-breaking number of households demanding work under the MGNREGS to the stark decline in consumption and FMCG sales — all signs point to a rural livelihood crisis. New Delhi: Consider a job offer where day wages are less than both statutory minimum wages and market wages for unskilled workers. The work may last for about 10 days at a time, and payments may take more than two weeks, at...
More »Forget minimum wages, MGNREGA workers not even receiving notified wages in many states
Every year in the month of either February or March, the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) announces the notified MGNREGA wage rates (i.e., notified daily wage rates for MGNREGA workers) for various states and Union Territories (UTs) for the upcoming financial year. The MGNREGA rates are notified every year based on the increase in Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL). Like the previous years, in 2021 too, experts and civil...
More »Migrants’ livelihoods during the pandemic: Challenges and opportunities -Dr. Janvi Gandhi Kanakia and others
-Leaflet.in Informal migrant workers in metropolitan cities of India have faced multiple forms of vulnerabilities in the last two years of the pandemic. Linkages across schemes for such workers are absolutely critical to creating a social security net that protects them from falling into similar cycles of poverty and destitution during macro and micro economic distresses. ON the occasion of International Labour Day, or ‘May Day’, we explore the dimensions of vulnerabilities...
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