Unlike the educated elite who go Westwards, attracted by better opportunities and a luxurious lifestyle, those who land up in West Asia as waged labourers have a much harder time: Practically no rights, hostile working environments and absolutely no support systems. Why is it that the violation of their basic rights doesn't figure at all in the national imagination? About the same time that India aired “absolute displeasure and concern” over...
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Funding crisis hits efforts to make banking services easy for Nrega beneficiaries by Devika Banerji
A funding crisis has hit the government's efforts to leverage the banking correspondent model to provide banking services to the beneficiaries of its flagship rural employment guarantee scheme. Work has stopped in Orissa, the first state to adopt the model in all districts, after State Bank of India (SBI) refused to bear the cost of this financial inclusion drive for the beneficiaries of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee...
More »Gender bias exists in Army: Officer to SC by Dhananjay Mahapatra
The Army suffers from acute gender bias to deny permanent commission to women officers who work shoulder to shoulder with male officers to assist and support troops in combat zones, Major Seema Singh has told the Supreme Court. "The policies for women in Army not only discriminate her against male officers but also lower her status to that of a jawan/junior commissioned officer, whom she has been leading for 14...
More »AEPC keen on tapping NREGS by M Allirajan
AEPC is keen on tapping the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. "We have written to the planning commission and the proposal is also with the textiles ministry," AEPC chairman Premal Udani said. TRAIning in apparel making could be made part of NREGS for which the industry could contribute Rs 50 per worker per day, initially. Once the worker is employed the industry would give an amount equivalent to the government's contribution...
More »Powerless in Urjanchal by Samar Halarnkar
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan wants it to be the new Singapore. State officials call it Urjanchal, land of energy. For sociologist Sakarama Somayaji, the enduring image from India’s emerging energy wonderland in Singrauli is the women who sell baskets of stones on the roadside. Individually or in groups, the women break stones, and sell them to passing trucks for R80-R90 a basket, a day’s labour. The women are...
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