There are a total of 50 lakh registered beedi workers in India today, mainly women. Political leaders talked about empowering the workers through govt schemes & reskilling them.
RSS affiliates Swadeshi Jagran Manch and Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, and All India Beedi Industry Federation, organise event to protest proposed changes to tobacco law.
A recent study shows that though the number of Indians, mostly women, employed in the beedi industry has increased nationally, southern states registered a healthy fall.
BMS says govt’s 13 April order making it mandatory to carry pictorial warnings on beedi bundles from 1 September will hit industry hard at a ‘most inopportune’ time.
IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
The plight of beedi workers is brilliantly captured in the song “Beedi jalai le, jigar ae piya”.
Ms. Bakhsh seems to have glossed ober this crucial element in her report.
The plight of beedi workers is brilliantly captured in the song “Beedi jalai le, jigar ae piya”.
Ms. Bakhsh seems to have glossed ober this crucial element in her report.