AIUFWP chips in to the growing support of nationwide peasant unrest planned for the Constitution Day The All India Union of Forest Working People (AIUFWP) on November 25, 2020 promised to join the ‘Dilli Chalo’ farmers protest rally as well […]
With amendments to the Manual Scavenging Act and making mechanised cleaning mandatory, will it help restore dignity of sanitation workers? The Government of India is undertaking some key measures to amend the manual scavenging laws, making the cleaning of septic […]
India has struggled to enforce laws banning the unsafe practice. Under the new measures, sewer and septic tank cleaning will be mechanized, with funds directly transferred to sanitation workers to buy cleaning machines. By Ankita Mukhopadhyay On Thursday, the Indian […]
Recently, the Lok Sabha passed three labour code bills – the Industrial Relations Code, 2020; the Occupational Safety, Health, and Working Conditions Code, 2020; and the Code on Social Security, 2020. This merged the 24 remaining central labour laws, giving […]
This report analyses the use of child labour[1] in the textiles and allied industries in India, and the drivers that lead to its prevalence. India, home to one-fifth of the world’s children, has the highest rates of child labour: an […]
How do the rich survive in a country that is vastly poor? There are several famous reasons. I wish to illuminate a little-known one. There is a civil war going on among the poor. It is invisible because we do […]
The revolutionary words that shook the throne of upper-caste dominance slyly perched on by the oppressive Mahants of Shankar Math, reverberated in the air of Bodhgaya—the land of spiritual and political revolution. By Deepshi Chowdhury The Bodhgaya Land Movement, spearheaded by […]
Treated as outcasts because of caste and born to poor families, children of Dalits in Bihar stare at a dark future with little help from the state government forcing the community no longer charmed by Nitish Kumar to accept the […]
Two men have died after they inhaled toxic gases while cleaning a septic tank in northwest Delhi’s Azadpur area, police said on Monday. At 6.45 pm on Sunday, police received information that in a gold factory in Azadpur’s G-Block, three […]
News on COVID-19 and headlines around the gut-wrenching Hathras rape together obscured a new proposed Bill. The contents of the proposed Manual Scavenging Prohibition Bill are of little interest to the average reader. Nevertheless, it impacts several thousands of people […]
