-ThePrint.in Minister of State in PMO Jitendra Singh says there were 78,923 vacant posts under reserved categories on 1 January 2020, and 42,066 of them remain unfilled. New Delhi: Over 42,000 posts reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Castes (OBC) are vacant in various central government ministries, the Narendra Modi government has revealed. In a written reply presented before Lok Sabha, Minister of State (MoS) in...
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Lest We Forget: One Year After the Labour and Migration Crisis
-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...
More »In the farm laws protests, are Punjab’s landless peasants getting left behind? -Prabhjit Singh
-CaravanMagazine.in On 21 February, over one lakh farmers and agricultural labourers gathered at a rally in Punjab’s Barnala district to pledge unity in the movement against the 2020 farm laws. The rally was organised by the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) and the Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union, two of the biggest unions that represent the interests of the landless peasants and work in tandem with each other. The BKU (EU) president,...
More »Allahabad HC warns against disruption of trial in Hathras gang rape case; says contempt proceedings will be initiated
-Leaflet.in THE Allahabad High Court Friday issued a stern warning to those attempting to disrupt the trial proceedings in the Hathras gang-rape case after the victim’s brother alleged that an unruly mob, including lawyers, barged into the court and intimidated the witnesses and the complainant’s counsel The trial judge was eventually forced to adjourn the proceedings. “If any person who is stranger to the trial as also anyone who may be involved in...
More »West Bengal Assembly Elections: From land movement to industry, Singur’s resistance has come full circle -Shiv Sahay Singh and Sudipta Datta
-The Hindu Amid Trinmool-BJP clash in the Hooghly belt, Left revives former CM’s slogan, pushing for development. Singur: A pile of drain pipes surrounded by farmlands reaping a good potato harvest is all that remains on the 997-acre plot in Singur where the Tata Motors’ Nano factory once stood. It is almost impossible to locate the site of the factory whose structure was demolished by controlled explosions after the Supreme Court verdict in...
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