I absolutely agree with the author of this article. The 5 Rs are a must! We educate children of migrant labourers and see the terrible conditions under which they live.Their lives are in constant crisis, not just during the Covid 19 pandemic. I call them the forgotten people. No one cares how they live. Yes they should be registered, recognised, given ration cards and given housing by their employers – govt or private companies. Roti kapda makaan are the basic necessities of survival! How are we tolerating it that millions of our people are living without these basic necessities. This crisis has made their condition starkly visible and I am very glad for it. I hope however that we will not go back to normal once this is over. But will learn our lessons from this and together make sure that we build a new India – where there aren’t so many poor people living in such abject poverty. Let’s all raise our voices against a system that leaves so many out of it or just about barely hanging at the margins so that they can provide the labour and the products the rich need. Labour should be paid much better, and employers should learn that they will do very well for themselves even if they pay their labour more, take care of their housing and health care. There is no need to reap obscene profits by exploiting and squeezing it out of the lives of poor labourers!
I absolutely agree with the author of this article. The 5 Rs are a must! We educate children of migrant labourers and see the terrible conditions under which they live.Their lives are in constant crisis, not just during the Covid 19 pandemic. I call them the forgotten people. No one cares how they live. Yes they should be registered, recognised, given ration cards and given housing by their employers – govt or private companies. Roti kapda makaan are the basic necessities of survival! How are we tolerating it that millions of our people are living without these basic necessities. This crisis has made their condition starkly visible and I am very glad for it. I hope however that we will not go back to normal once this is over. But will learn our lessons from this and together make sure that we build a new India – where there aren’t so many poor people living in such abject poverty. Let’s all raise our voices against a system that leaves so many out of it or just about barely hanging at the margins so that they can provide the labour and the products the rich need. Labour should be paid much better, and employers should learn that they will do very well for themselves even if they pay their labour more, take care of their housing and health care. There is no need to reap obscene profits by exploiting and squeezing it out of the lives of poor labourers!