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Hysterectomy In Lieu of Leave for Woman Farm Labour in Beed -Jai Narayan Tiwari

-TheCitizen.in There are no sweet moment for Sugarcare farm labourers “My body aches, my hands and legs hurt a lot, but I still have many trucks to load. If I delay it the workload will increase. I can eat only after the task is done,” said Sarika Laxman Chole, a 25-year-old labourer working on a sugarcane field at this village in Beed. She works from 8 am to midnight, to earn Rs 300-350...

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Sonia Gandhi tells Centre to ensure proper allocation of Budget for MGNREGA, payment of wages within 15 days of work

-The Tribune Poor workers cannot be punished by stopping the money, she says Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday urged the BJP-led Centre to ensure proper allocation of the Budget for MGNREGA and payment of wages within 15 days of work, saying “poor workers cannot be punished by stopping the money”. Speaking in the Lok Sabha during Zero Hour, Gandhi said, "The payment of wages should be ensured for labourers within 15 days...

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Civil society members are unhappy with the abysmal rise in notified wage rates for MGNREGA in FY 2022-23

-Joint Press Note released by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha network and People’s Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG) dated March 31, 2022 The wage rates for NREGA workers for FY 2022-23 were notied on 28.03.2022. The notication of the wage rate has been extremely late, with only 3 days remaining for the beginning of the next nancial year. Such a delay prevents any discussion or debate regarding the wage rates or their adequacy....

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India’s water management programmes haven’t cultivated water security or meaningful livelihoods -Nidhi Batra

-India Spend/ Scroll.in These programmes should look at skilling the workforce for paid jobs rather than unpaid, part-time volunteers. Central government programmes on water emphasise groundwater management by the community in a decentralised manner but, by and large, these schemes are silent on the availability, training and deployment of a skilled workforce for this task, especially in rural areas. Water management at the most decentralised, local levels is often a part-time, volunteer or...

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Size of rural families shrinks: Sample registration system report -Abhishek Jha

-Hindustan Times The Total Fertility Level (TFR) – defined as the number of children a woman is expected to have in her reproductive age (15-49 years) – in rural and urban India in 2019 has been estimated to be 2.3 and 1.7 Smaller rural families and an increase in working-age population -- these are some of the findings from the latest report of the Sample Registration System (SRS; for 2019) which was...

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