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.
The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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.