As Hyderabad continues to rise skyward with high-rise buildings and expansive real estate ventures, the city’s booming construction industry leans heavily on the labour of thousands of interstate migrant workers.…
A significant number of residents of Bhaggupurva hamlet in Nagnedi panchayat (Banda district) of Uttar Pradesh) migrate regularly from the village as they cannot earn their subsistence in the village.…
It is 11.30 and we are at the Haiderpur labor chowk in Delhi where workers gather every morning in the hope of being picked up for work relating to construction,…
Each year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) releases its World Migration Report. Most of these reports are anodyne, pointing to a secular rise in migration during the period of…
On an extremely hot afternoon of May 22 people saw a pathetic scene near Gwalior railway station. A woman with three small children was standing near a rickshaw and weeping…
In many villages of Banda district, Uttar Pradesh, livelihood conditions for many landless worker households and even for many marginal farmer households, those with very small and sometimes disputed land…
Arun Mallik, who was over sixty, was a guard in our society, which was a gated community in Delhi. He was often seen pushing the larger vehicles to rearrange them…
A large number of daily-wage workers gather every day in Haiderpur (Delhi) on a side of a busy road. They wait here till a contractor or other employer comes to…
It is around 10 in the morning and the number of workers at the Sigalpur labor chowk in Shalimar Bagh area of Delhi is increasing. As a worker Munna says—“The…
To Shri Apurva Chandra Union Labour Secretary Dear Shri Apurva Chandra, The preamble to the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979 defines its…
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