Questions to be addressed to Saji Narayann, BMS President
How do you think the lockdown has impacted migrant worker’s lives?Is he aware of the actual number of the migrant workers stuck in different states because of the lockdown?Has the…
Housing the migrant worker
The plan to give free food grains and rental housing support to support migrant labours declared by the finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, on Thursday — whenever actualized — can prod…
Why isn’t there a Vande Bharat mission for India’s migrant workers to get home?
On March 31, the Centre informed the Supreme Court that there were no transient workers on the streets given the measures governments had embraced to house and feed them in…
Indian capitalism’s hour of disgrace- Well deserved labour shortage
The Indian public discourse around migrant labour largely ignores the main reason why the labourers have been so desperate to go back home: their employers stopped paying them wages. One…
Migrant workers fiasco will cost India
The battle against the corona virus pandemic appears to have denied us of our humankind. The tragic horrible occurrence of 16 migrants being cut down under a goods train in…
‘No coordination among departments, migrant workers are suffering the most’- Gujarat HC
The Gujarat High Court on Monday took note of news reports highlighting the difficulties faced by migrant workers and as well as “underprivileged and weaker sections of the society that…
As lakhs of migrant workers try to go home, Indian states spar over logistics
As Assam's Covid-19 cases rise, the state government focuses a finger at Rajasthan. The spat began after May 6, when a transport pressed with 43 travellers came back from Rajasthan's…
In Tamil Nadu, migrant workers can’t go back home
Two days prior, the Karnataka government, after a gathering with prominent builders, reported that it would not encourage the movement of migrant workers back home because their work was expected…
As India begins to evacuate citizens from Gulf, many migrants are anxious about their futures
The Indian government will dispatch the world's largest evacuation mission to bring back lakhs of Indians stranded abroad in the midst of the corona virus pandemic this week. In any…
Politics is holding India’s migrant workers hostage- COVID 19 cannot be blamed for financial package
A future history specialist may call this the great hostage drama. The Narendra Modi government's activities versus the migrant workers during the Covid-19 lockdown currently rule out disarray. This isn't…