Centre tells States to split rural jobs scheme wages into separate categories for SCs, STs, others
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It will complicate payment system, may lead to a reduction in funding, say experts.
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It will complicate payment system, may lead to a reduction in funding, say experts. The Centre has asked the States to split wage payments under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme into separate categories for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and others from this financial year. Workers’ rights advocates said this will unnecessarily complicate the payment system, and expressed fears that it may lead to a reduction in scheme funding.
Breaking the cycle of child labour is in India’s hands
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Though the pandemic has amplified its contributing factors, policy and programmatic interventions can save children
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Though the pandemic has amplified its contributing factors, policy and programmatic interventions can save children
The true extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child labour is yet to be measured but all indications show that it would be significant as children are unable to attend school and parents are unable to find work. However, not all the factors that contribute to child labour were created by the pandemic; most of them were pre-existing and have been exposed or amplified by it.
Read more about Demand for MGNREGA work slumps 26% in May amid Covid-19 pandemic on Business Standard. Several civil society workers said the push seen last year in expanding the scheme has largely been missing this year.
Second Covid Wave Has Wreaked Havoc On The Livelihoods Of The Rural Poor
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Ashish Karamchandani 01 June 2021, Last Updated at 10:36 pm AP Photo Ashish Karamchandani 2021-06-01T22:24:59+05:30 Second Covid Wave Has Wreaked Havoc On The Livelihoods Of The Rural Poor outlookindia.com 2021-06-01T22:36:59+05:30
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We all remember the time migrant labourers traversed hundreds of kilometers by foot, in a desperate attempt to reach home amid the peak of the first Covid wave. And while the second Covid wave might not have brought back those heart-wrenching visuals to our TV screens, migrant labourers continue to face the difficulties they faced earlier.
Putting forward a list of demands that included universal vaccination against COVID-19, repeal of anti-farmer and anti-labour laws, guaranteed job for 200 days a year under Mahatma Gandhi National Rur