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PTI
Gujarat: 14 Migrant Workers, Baby Girl Sleeping on Roadside Crushed to Death in Surat
19 Jan 2021
A truck ran over the migrant construction workers from Rajasthan.
Harsh Mander
Locking Down the Poor: The Pandemic and India’s Moral Centre
17 Jan 2021
Home to the largest number of undernourished people on the planet, India imposed the world’s harshest lockdown for the pandemic.
Sumedha Pal
Loss of Housing Played Key Role Behind Delhi’s Migrant Exodus: Report
17 Dec 2020
On the eve of International Migrants Day, as commemorated by the United Nations on December 18 every year, the Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) released
Ditsa Bhattacharya
How are the Migrant Workers of India Doing?
07 Dec 2020
According to the Stranded Workers Action Group (SWAN), around 81.6% of migrant workers did not receive rations during the lockdown.
Shankar Gopalakrishnan
Modi Government's New Housing Scheme Likely to Achieve Little
07 Dec 2020
It is a dark reflection on our policymakers that what is said to be the largest human migration since Partition still did not make any dent in their continued endorsement of approaches like this.
Dola Mitra
Disastrous 2020 Topples West Bengal Election Forecasts
29 Nov 2020
Every failure of the Centre and state has been exposed. A resurgent opposition is no longer bound by the 2019 Lok Sabha poll narrative.
Surajit Das
COVID-19 Lockdown: Why Compensation to Workers is Overdue in India
20 Nov 2020
The trade unions in India are demanding an ex gratia cash transfer of Rs 7,500 per month to all the workers outside the direct income tax bracket as compensation for income lost for the mo
Varsha Torgalkar
Death of a Tribal Labourer Highlights Need for Social Security for Migrant Workers
12 Nov 2020
‘The family was not aware that they should have gone to the police with the dead body and get a post-mortem done. All of them looked confused when asked if they had gone to the police or doctors…
Ditsa Bhattacharya
Most Indian States Fail to Integrate Migrant Workers, Says Index
09 Nov 2020
While Kerala, Goa and Rajasthan did well, Manipur, Jharkhand and Tripura featured at the bottom of the index.
Rakhi Ghosh
In Odisha, Children of Returnee Migrants See Bleak Future with School Closure Notice
03 Nov 2020
The state government’s decision to close nearly 12,000 state-run primary school with less than 20 students has created a fear of increased drop-out rates especially among the tribal children, as the…