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Maharashtra: NGO whips up ready-to-cook food kits for tribals, migrants, displaced during pandemic
arun Posted On June 21, 2021


As the country battles the 15-month long Covid-19 pandemic, a Mumbai NGO has come up with a unique mass-feeding solution that is bringing succor to the poor tribals in remote areas or even to the jobless migrants displaced during the […]


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NHRC issues new advisories for bonded and migrant labourers amid Covid-19
arun Posted On June 6, 2021


The commission has laid down specific suggestions for prevention, identification, rescue and rehabilitation of bonded workers The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued more advisories to various ministries and States on the adverse impact faced by labourers and migrant […]


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COVID-19 and India’s New Viral Necropolitics
arun Posted On May 25, 2021


In Necropolitics (2019), Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe describes the power of ‘liberal’ democracies – which never addressed or abandoned their founding violence of dispossession, exploitation, and extraction – to give death and withhold death as the sovereign rite of regulating […]


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Dalit bodies demand immediate relief for migrants
arun Posted On May 23, 2021


Dalit rights organisations appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide immediate relief assistance and universal social protection coverage for people engaged in the informal sector. NEW DELHI:  Dalit rights organisations appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide immediate […]


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Provide ration, transport, community kitchens for migrant workers: SC
arun Posted On May 14, 2021


The Supreme Court has directed Governments of Delhi, UP, Haryana to inform how they will address miseries of stranded migrant labourers Many migrant workers, especially those working in the northern states, continue to struggle as they find themselves stranded in […]


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Labourers are backbone of a capitalist economy. India can’t leave them unattended in Covid
arun Posted On May 13, 2021


India’s working class, for whose betterment Ambedkar brought a series of legislation, is struggling to access social protection in the Covid crisis. By Aditi Narayani The second wave of the coronavirus pandemic has forced many out of jobs and contributed […]


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Covid lockdown: Over 150 academicians voice migrant workers’ demands
arun Posted On May 11, 2021


Observing the condition of India’s working class in 2020, a group of academicians reiterated in a list the various needs of migrant workers that need to be addressed in the face of an impending lockdown Over 150 academicians, including ICTS-TIFR […]


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COVID-19 has hit India’s urban poor more than those in villages: Report
arun Posted On May 8, 2021


Urban poor have seen a decline in income and have been left more hungry, though this was not the case earlier By Shagun Kapil The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has left the urban poor in India poorer, more hungry […]


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Formulate medical scheme for migrant workers: Delhi HC to gov’t
arun Posted On May 6, 2021


The court held that the situation called for a structured response and directed the government to formulate a scheme in two weeks The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi government to formulate a scheme for migrant and unorganised sector […]


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Invitation to migrant workers, a step against govt’s failure to help citizens: SKM
arun Posted On April 25, 2021


Stating that farmers are returning to the border after the conclusion of the harvest season, the SKM said workers are welcome to seek refuge at protest points where food and shelter is available. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) asserted that […]


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