-NDTV New Delhi/ Jhansi: It is 8 in the morning and for 60-year-old mason Amir Khan, a migrant from Uttar Pradesh's drought-hit Bundelkhand region, it looks like the day will involve yet another futile wait for work on a South Delhi road - the third such day in succession. Mr Khan is one among thousands from Bundelkhand who work as daily wagers in bigger cities each year, sending back money to help...
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No country for a child -Preeti Mehra
-The Hindu Business Line By allowing children to work in family enterprises, amendments to the Child Labour Act have made them more vulnerable to exploitation. Tracking the issue will be more difficult, writes Preeti Mehra When the two houses of Parliament put their stamp on a few amendments to the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986 a couple of months ago, they also signed away the dignity of children and the...
More »Fruits of development still elusive in Kalahandi 30,000 people migrate -Ratan K Pani
-The New Indian Express BHAWANIPATNA: More than 60 per cent of cultivable land lies infertile in Kalahandi district. Rain has been playing hide and seek year after year pushing small and marginal farmers to the brink. On the irrigation front too, Indravati project has failed to provide succour. Nearly 63 per cent of the district’s population lives below the poverty line. A rough estimate reveals that 30,000 people from 10,000 families migrate...
More »How to be a model State again -Jayan Jose Thomas
-The Hindu Kerala today is not generating enough jobs to meet the expectations of educated Keralites entering the labour market. Changing this is vital and doable Kerala’s development model is in focus yet again as the newly elected Left Democratic Front government is in the process of evolving a vision for the State’s economy. On the one hand, Kerala has made spectacular achievements in land reforms, education, and health since its formation. Amartya...
More »The abandoned villages of Bundelkhand -Nikita Mehta
-Livemint.com Tiliya, one of many villages in Bundelkhand region, has been emptied of its young people as they have migrated to the cities to find work, usually menial jobs Jhansi/ New Delhi: Adjacent to the Pahuj river, surrounded by small rocky hills in Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh lies Tiliya, a village of 42 households. Most villagers are farmers but, strangely, almost all the farmers are elderly. They put it down to ‘Palaayaan’...
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