-Press release by Working Peoples Charter (WPC) Network dated 23rd March, 2021 A statement on the condition of India’s migrant workforce one year after the COVID-19 lockdowns 24 March marks the anniversary of India’s harsh nationwide COVID-19 lockdown when we witnessed an unparalleled impact on the country’s poor, particularly internal migrants who comprise a 140 million-strong workforce. In 2020, India saw the largest urban-rural exodus in its history, with millions of workers...
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'I Don’t Have the Option to Rent a House': How Migrant Workers Differ From the Urban Poor -Malay Kotal
-TheWire.in The mass exodus of migrant workers from cities after the nationwide lockdown has amplified the housing crisis for migrant workers in cities. ‘Low-income migrants’ in cities have always subsumed under the blanket, but arguably vague, term ‘urban poor’. This categorisation overlooks the mobility dimension of migrant workers’ lives where they are constantly moving between places in search of work, following capital. The government’s own estimates also indicate that with each passing...
More »Jal Shakti ministry’s groundwater guideline shuns opportunity to address overall crisis -KAS Mani
-Down to Earth Complex groundwater systems cannot be controlled or predicted, but need to be better managed and made more efficient The Central Ground Water Authority’s (GGWA) latest guideline — banning the grant of no-objection certificates (NoC) for extracting groundwater to all new industries coming up in ‘over-exploited’ areas — is yet another duplication of previous failed policy regulations. By implication, the new regulatory policy is not pretentious about looking at the problem...
More »Smothering the housing rights of the urban poor -Mathew Idiculla
-The Hindu A Court order, on Delhi’s slum dwellings, threatens to undo the promise of the right to housing offered in earlier verdicts In a short order with devastating consequences, the Supreme Court of India on August 31 ordered the removal of about 48,000 slum dwellings situated along the railway tracks in Delhi. A three-judge Bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra, in one of his last orders before his retirement, directed State...
More »Statement by Right to Housing activists related to the Supreme Court order on demolition of shanties along the railway tracks dated 31st August, 2020
-Press release by Right to Housing Activists dated 3rd September, 2020 A press release has been issued by Right to Housing activists related to the order of the Supreme Court dated 31st August, 2020 in MC Mehta versus Union of India, WP(C) 13029/1985, that asked for the demolition of Jhuggis (slums/ shanties) along the railway tracks. The press release says that Jhuggis along the railway tracks are already covered by the...
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