Synopsis The move is aimed at creating a central data repository of migrant workers. The proposed household survey will focus on job and income loss suffered by the workers after March 24 when a nationwide lockdown was announced to contain the outbreak. The survey will also take into account their movement back to industrial hubs … Read more
New Delhi: Government is said to have informed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour that though more than 24 Lakh migrant skilled labourers had registered for jobs in the wake of the COVID pandemic, only 5000 could be given employment in their home state. The union ministry of Skill Development officials shared the figures with … Read more
New Delhi: The Centre will sign agreements with states within a month for the construction of affordable living spaces for the poor and migrant workers in urban areas under the Affordable Rental Housing Complexes scheme, a senior official said on Tuesday. Union Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra said during an online media … Read more
The effects of Covid-19 are highly skewed across age groups: the aged are the most vulnerable; children and youth are the least. The effects of lockdowns are also skewed: the aged and the retired are the least affected; nonelderly adults, youth and children are the most. Lockdown will not affect the incomes of the aged … Read more
By Andy Mukherjee It took a pandemic and a lockdown to highlight the precarious existence of the country’s blue-collar workers. Left without jobs and shelter, an estimated 30 million — roughly a fifth of the urban labor force — have gone back to their villages, with many completing long, hazardous journeys on foot when trains … Read more