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New Delhi, January 8
The Indian Ambassador to Beijing Vikram Misri has provided options to the Chinese government to resolve the grave humanitarian crises facing 41 Indian sailors stuck on two “floating prisons” off the Chinese coast for nearly six months due to an escalating trade conflict between China and Australia.
Misri met the Vice Minister of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing while the External Affairs Ministry is in contact with the Chinese embassy here for an early crew change on the two ships, spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava said at a news briefing here on Friday.
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In a joint submission to the Labour Ministry, a group of 23 trade unions, civil society organisations and members of academia have raised concerns with the Draft Rules for the Code on Social Security, 2020. In particular, they have raised concerns surrounding the burden of registration of workers, workers’ data privacy, and overall ease of accessibility to benefits, among other things. The submission lays down concerns as well as recommendations on the Draft Rules that seek to govern social security benefits for gig workers and platform workers, for which the Ministry had begun consultations in November.
The submission, made on December 21, has been endorsed by unions such as the Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT), All India IT and ITeS Employees’ Union (AIITEU), and All India Gig Workers Union; and civil society organisations such as the Centre for Internet & Society, IT For Change, and Tandem Research.
39 Indian sailors continue to be stranded in Chinese waters, no resolution on horizon
The sailors are on two ships, the Indian MV Jag Anand and Swiss-Italian MV Anastasia, that have been denied permission to offload Australian coal they are carrying.
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New Delhi: The 39 Indian sailors stranded in Chinese waters on two merchant ships for three to seven months, because of deteriorating China-Australia ties, are being counselled for severe mental distress, an official of the National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI) has said.
Abdulgani Serang, general secretary, National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI), Friday told ThePrint that the sailors are caught in the middle of a “trade war” between China and Australia and that the union had been counselling the sailors over phone.
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