Page 21 - Migrant Workers

Migration and the call of home

After weeks of hard-to-control crowds taking to the streets to find a way home, more chaos is likely to ensue as reluctant governments piece together plans to transport them home

Train from Aluva to Bhubaneswar to take first set of 1,200 migrants home

6,000 litres of water, food for Day One of the journey arranged; Most of 360,000 'guest workers' staying in 20,826 camps at present want to head back home

A May Day minus the solidarity march in India as lockdown plays spoilsport

This is the first time in about five decades that workers have not been able to exhibit a show of unanimity

UP, MP exchange 6,600 of their stranded labourers amid Covid-19 lockdown

Adityanath writes letters to counterparts in other states

Top headlines: 1,200 migrants leave Telangana by special train, and more

Business Standard brings to you a snapshot of stories that made to the headlines

Social distancing must when trains take stranded workers, students home

These special trains will be operated by the Railway Ministry, said Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla

May Day brings little solace, as Indian workers stare at longer work hours

For the first time in one and a half centuries, workers will have to toil 72 hours a week in at least five states as govts try to restart production amid the nationwide lockdown

Three Jharkhand migrant labourers test Covid-19 positive in Chhattisgarh

A large number of migrant labourers, mostly from Jharkhand and Bihar, had crossed into Chhattisgarh from Maharashtra after the lockdown

Covid-19 outbreak: Govt eases curbs on interstate movement amid lockdown

Union home secretary issues order amending earlier guidelines that barred people from crossing states and cities.

3 cops injured in stone pelting by migrant workers at IIT Hyderabad

The workers who were protesting near a construction site demanded that they be paid wages and allowed to go back to their native places in view of the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown, police said

Govt to discuss job creation, worker welfare with industry, labour unions

The government has given some relaxation to the industry in filing their returns under the labour laws by extending the last date during the lockdown period

Stranded people in lockdown can move to home: Centre tells states, UTs

Home ministry issues guidelines on how people should be taken home, medically tested.

Think about adopting 'One nation one ration card' amid lockdown: SC to govt

The central government scheme is scheduled to be launched in June this year

India coronavirus dispatch: Migrant workers need housing security

From India's testing conundrum, to financing the Covid-19 response, and the non-respiratory symptoms of the disease - read these and more in today's India digest

Slight ease in lockdown gives hope to the desperate, improves employment

The count of the unemployed who were actively looking for jobs during the week of April 26 was around 76 mn. In the earlier weeks, it was close to 100 mn

Coronavirus impact: 60% firms run at less than 25% capacity, says CII

The movement of workers and raw materials remain key hurdles to resuming businesses despite the government allowing major chunks of the industry to operate

Shelter home generates livelihood for jobless labourers in Chhattisgarh

Surajpur Collector Deepak Soni said that the administration has provided work to more than 500 poor people at the shelter home

India coronavirus dispatch: How Goa managed to control the pandemic

From debating easing of lockdown, to worsening access to mental healthcare, to status of women migrant workers in the post-Covid era

Covid-19: An app that connects donors, beneficiaries and grocery stores

People affected by the lockdown can call the Free Ration; which is manned by a 15-member call centre, or contact them through the app

Centre should use fiscal powers to ease state constraints: Yamini Aiyar

She says India needs to avoid another nationwide lockdown