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Rabindra Nath Sinha
No Sign of Revival: Garment Biz Ostagars, Tailor-workers of West Bengal Despair
10 Aug 2020
The dearth of capital will make a return to normalcy difficult for ostagars even when there will be a visible improvement and the authorities muster courage to lift all the restrictions.
Scharada Dubey
How Long will the Indian Poor be Invisible?
08 Aug 2020
It was ok for all of us to just label them as “migrant workers” and take shelter in the political correctness of this term since it might so easily have been, “these poor people”.
Indira Khurana
Returning Migrants Can Become India’s New Water Warriors
07 Aug 2020
Water is critical to eliminating or perpetuating poverty. The pandemic reminds us that villages need a strong measure of self-reliance in water.
Newsclick Report
Kerala: Govt. Fastracks Job Creation with Gulf Returnees Staring at a Bleak Future
06 Aug 2020
About three lakh people have returned to the state so far. It is being considered one of the biggest reverse migrations in Kerala’s history.
Newsclick Team
Pandemic Effect on Migrant Workers, New Education Policy and More
04 Aug 2020
Today, we will talk about a survey report which has revealed that over two thirds of migrant workers, who had returned back to their villages, are working as labourers or have returned back/planning…
PTI
Two-Thirds of Migrants Have Returned to Cities or Wish to do so: Survey
03 Aug 2020
The survey also found that one in four households is thinking of taking their child out of school (24%).
Abdul Rahman
Workers Returning From Crisis-hit Gulf Economies Need State Support Back Home
23 Jul 2020
The Gulf countries are already forcing a large number of migrant workers to go back to their home countries.
Savera
Unemployment Ravages Indian Economy But Resistance Mounts
22 Jul 2020
Joblessness is death by a million cuts, although it is often treated only as an uncomfortable statistic by neoliberal economists and bureaucrats. The staggering scale of unemployment in India before…
Vedika Kakar
Differently-abled Migrant Women Workers Grapple with the Pandemic
21 Jul 2020
The complexities of vulnerabilities of marginalised sections have been propelled further by the socio-economic impact of COVID-19.
Mohd. Imran Khan
COVID-19: It has Taken 60 Days for Bihar to Reach Daily Testing Target of 10,000 Samples
17 Jul 2020
On May 13, chief minister Nitish Kumar had instructed officials to scale up testing to 10,000/day.