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Second COVID wave in India badly hit daily wage urban workers
Economy

What construction workers in Delhi fear the most: Another sudden lockdown

October 2, 2020 Vijaya Pushkarna

The hardest hit by COVID-19 were small contractors, employing five-six workers, mostly migrants, who fled the capital during March-May and are now hesitant to return.

Society

How residents of a low-income Mumbai settlement ensured food for their migrant neighbours

May 19, 2020 Malay Kotal

A single man’s drive and an empathetic community led to this community kitchen in Mumbai’s Pisavali, which has provided hundreds of food packets to migrant families.

Governance

Looking beyond the cost of a ticket: Should migrant labourers go home?

May 12, 2020 Manasi Paresh Kumar

Watching the heartbreaking images of migrant labourers trying to reach home during the lockdown, it seems cruel to argue that they stay put. But to allow them to go back may be even more disastrous.

Governance

Why Shramik trains and other promises have brought little cheer to Mumbai’s migrant workers

May 5, 2020 Hepzi Anthony

Mumbai has an estimated 3 million migrant workers. Even if the railways ferry about 2400 people in two trains per day, it will take a couple of months to transport them back home.

Migrant workers in the informal sector in Bengaluru
Society

Will hunger pangs among migrant labour lead to anger on the streets?

May 4, 2020 T R Gopalakrishnan

Most people we spoke with are cautious about how the situation will develop post May 4th, but all pointed to the shortcomings in the present system for providing relief to the poor.

Inflation fallout: Where will the next meal come from for these unemployed workers
Society

Shimla: Hunger looms large as jobs fall prey to COVID-19

April 15, 2020 Ashwani Sharma

Sirmauris, as natives from Shillai are known, have been living for years in Shimla working as porters, tourist guides, taxi drivers, private security and waiters. So have the roughly 8000 porters from Kashmir. But none of them have faced such a financial crisis ever before, unable to meet even their basic food needs.

Economy

Chandigarh: Ahead of harvest, farmers worried about labour and procurement

April 9, 2020 Raj Machhan

Every year, Punjab employs around 10 lakh migrant labourers to carry out the market operations during Rabi harvest. These labourers generally come in late March and stay on till June to complete the transplantation of paddy.

Urban work scheme: Hunger stalks the jobless urban poor
Society

Little relief for these migrant labourers as they stare at a long, hard struggle ahead

March 28, 2020 Vijaya Pushkarna

Caught between the devil and the deep sea, migrant workers in the Kausambi area of NCR, which falls in UP, face a stark choice: stay put and starve or get home somehow, which for most is 700 km away.

Governance

Delhi fire tragedy a grim reminder of the city’s 32000+ child labourers

December 12, 2019 Oommen C Kurian

Between 2011 and 2017, child workers under the age of 14 increased from a little over 2000 to 32,330 — 41% of them Dalit and 55% Muslim. Now with the recent fire at Anaj Mandi claiming several such young lives, will the Delhi government sit up and act on this mounting problem?

Economy

Why many migrant waste-pickers stayed back in Srinagar despite fears and uncertainty

December 11, 2019 Abid Bashir Wani

Hospitable, caring and offering opportunities for a decent living — that is how most of them see the city. Thus, despite the tension and reports of attacks on non-Kashmiris in the days following the abrogation of Article 370, they decided to stay put. And they have not regretted it.

Economy

All for Rs 10K or less a month: The lives of Noida’s migrant rickshaw pullers

June 16, 2019 Vishwas

Around 20,000 tricycle rickshaw pullers live in Noida, mostly migrants from other states, who came here in pursuit of the ‘urban dream.’ But they find themselves constantly struggling to meet all ends, as they lead sub-par lives, far from their families and roots.

Urban rich poor divide: Slums next to high-rise commercial buildings
Economy

How the Noida incident shows the feudal face of Indian cities

August 17, 2017 Smita Mitra

A riot by domestic workers, protests against gender violence or movements against patriarchal limits are all sporadic but increasing signs of resentment against the feudal codes of conduct that still dominate our cities.

Waste Management

Living on the edge: A photo-essay on Bengaluru’s migrant waste pickers

May 10, 2017 Kavya Michael

A vivid picture of the destitution and rights-deprivation that members of the city’s migrant waste-picking community are doomed to.


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