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Increase in desperation among workers, violence against women, say official data
In the past few years, the central government has made big claims of development for farmers and laborers, but the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau shows that the reality of these claims is different. According to the latest NCRB data, suicides of farmers and laborers have increased in the country.
On the Conditions of Workers and Peasants in India: What is to be done today?
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Thousands of Anganwadi workers protest, demands of wage hike unmet, talks with M’tra CM fail
Negotiations between the Maharashtra State Anganwadi Workers Action Committee and M’tra CM, Eknath Shinde failed on January 3, agitation and strike of state’s day care workers to continue
Gujarat govt’s vibrant move: Graduates to get stipend more than State’s class one babus!
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Aadhaar-linked wages for MNREGS workers mandatory from Jan 1, 2024
The linking of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to Aadhaar – a scheme sharply criticised by experts and activists is set to be implemented from January 1, 2024. The move by the union government, makes it impossible for job seekers to secure payment under the scheme without an Aadhaar card connected to their job cards.
Delhi: Re-instate unlawfully removed sewer workers, ensure dignified wage, demands at a Public Hearing
The Public Hearing held last Thursday addressed both the Delhi government and the Delhi Commission for Safai Karmacharis who participated and urged implementation of a series of recommendations
Refusal to allow salt farming in Little Rann ‘pushes’ 1200 Gujarat Agariyas to margins
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Pangs of Unemployment: Invoking Bhagat Singh
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58 reported deaths in Gujarat in last 5 years: Union Govt data reveals deaths due to cleaning of sewers and septic tanks
No centralised data on whether deaths caused were to people from marginalized community; even as Ministry acknowledges tragic toll, data is a blank on specific details on compensation given
Decreasing trend in SCs Persondays in 2023 observed in 2023, from 22.63% in 2014-15 to 19.39% in 2023-24
MGNREGA's SC Employment Decline Sparks Concern: Data reveals dip in SC Persondays, urgent examination needed for equitable rural employment under MGNREGA
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