Security forces intensified operations to trace terrorists who killed two migrant labourers in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha ordered heightened security, while political leaders demanded a thorough probe and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced ex gratia relief
As the Union government replaces MGNREGA with centrally designed VB-GRAMG, it quietly dismantles a rights-based employment guarantee, putting rural women’s livelihoods at risk
India’s dependence on migrant labour to build its cities and drive its economy carries a responsibility to protect their health, safety, dignity, and welfare
Cotton farmers in Adilabad are depending on migrant labourers from Maharashtra, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh to harvest their crop due to a shortage of local workers. Already burdened by restrictions from the Cotton Corporation of India, which refuses to buy cotton with moisture content above 12 percent, farmers are incurring heavy losses.
Rafique Alam (20) and Wasiqul Alam (27), from Jharkhand died and two others were injured after an under-construction wall of a poultry shed collapsed on them in Chinna Shankarampet mandal on Monday.
Conducting meeting with representatives of brick kiln units, hotels and other business establishments on the occasion of anti-child labour day at the IDOC conference hall here on Wednesday, Muzammil Khan instructed them not to engage children in work and to implement the anti-child labour Act without fail.
Siddipet: Two migrant labourers, who were working in a local company were drowned in a check dam at Nacharam in Wargal Mandal on Sunday evening. The victims were Om Prakash and (27) and Surendar (28). According to locals, the two labourers from Bihar went deep into the check swimming but could not swim back. The […]
Under Open Market Sales Scheme, food grains were being sold at affordable rates to NGOs engaged in relief operations for helping migrant labourers and vulnerable groups.
It was not merely complaints against exorbitant charges by hospitals, the Minister also responded to complaints about atrocities against migrant workers.
Ganpatlal, a passenger of the ill-fated bus, claimed that nearly 100 people were travelling in the vehicle and a number of them were sitting on its roof.
According to the government spokesman, the Chief Minister has directed officials to make proper arrangements for corona testing and quarantining of migrant workers.
