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TopicMigrant workers

Topic: Migrant workers

Vendors, lawyers, dancers, brokers — Maharashtra master database to have all migrant workers

Maharashtra govt is planning to maintain a master database of migrant workers engaged in 300 types of jobs in the state.

India faces ‘lost generation’ as Covid pushes children out of school and into jobs

Civil society groups are rescuing more kids from forced labour & warn many others are being compelled to work in cities because of migrant labour shortage.

Migrant workers, freelancers must be under social security net, Parliamentary panel suggests

The panel on labour also recommended that pension and healthcare needs of these workers should be provided from the social security fund. 

Ayushman Bharat wasn’t a ‘boon for migrants’ under lockdown, govt data shows

Among the top 5 states under the PM-JAY arm of Ayushman Bharat, only Bihar showed a rise in the number of portability cases in May and June.

Directly employed, self-employed also ‘migrant workers’ under Modi govt’s new definition

Govt accepts Parliamentary panel suggestion to include workers with family income less than Rs 18,000/month, ‘so no one is left out of social security net’.

Sonu Sood launches Pravasi Rojgar app to help migrants find job opportunities

The Pravasi Rojgar app will provide all the necessary information and right linkages to find jobs and offer specific job training programmes like spoken English.

Odisha has a Sonu Sood — actor Sabyasachi Mishra who’s making things happen for migrants

From arranging bus and train travel to medical relief, the Odia actor has been helping people reaching out to him through social media during Covid.

Illegal to increase factory work hours from 8 to 12 — parliamentary panel to labour ministry

Members of the panel on labour, which met Monday, also said there should be a social security number for all migrants so that they can register in the proposed national portal.

Skill mapping, MoUs, changes in labour laws — how Chhattisgarh plans to employ 7 lakh migrants

Chhattisgarh is working on a plan to provide permanent jobs to about 7 lakh migrant labourers. It has completed skill mapping of 2.5 lakh of these.

Pacts with industry bodies, helpdesks, job schemes: UP tells SC about steps taken for migrants

In an affidavit, UP govt told SC over 30 lakh migrants have returned. It also highlighted the schemes it has floated to generate jobs for the migrants in the next 6 to 12 months.

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