![]() | Migrant workers, street vendors bemoan loss of business during ‘lockdown’ in DelhiMigrant workers, who constitute a large section of workers in Delhi, earn their bread and butter by working on daily wages. |
![]() | Visionary approach needed over quick fixes in new migrant lawA legal framework which enables social interventions and confidence-building measures to reduce violence and crime should direct the processes for creating a new legal regime. |
![]() | Maui fires: Immigrant workers' incalculable loss; rebuilding lives togetherWith businesses burned down, legions of those who survived are now jobless. Many are also without a place to live after the blaze also tore through the housing of many people who worked at town. |
![]() | Creche for migrant workers’ kids a mesh of culturesParents find the creche a blessing. Volunteers visited the houses of migrant workers to introduce the facility. |
![]() | Migrant held for Assam murder, underlining state government’s database plansThe Kerala government initiated the process of registering migrant workers on August 7 after the brutal rape and murder of a five-year-old girl from Bihar by a migrant worker from the same state. |
![]() | In a first, Kerala to provide free ration to migrant labourersAs per the State Planning Board statistics, there were around 6.5 lakh migrant labourers in Kerala in 2011 with the number estimated to have risen threefold in 12 years. |
![]() | Gurugram-Nuh violence: Authorities assure migrant workers of safety amid exodusLots of workers started fleeing to their native places in different states in view of violence that flared up here and in Nuh earlier in the week. |
![]() | Kerala: Registration of all migrant workers in the pipelineCurrently, the state relies on the Inter-State Migrant Labour Act, of 1979, for issues concerning migrant workers. |
![]() | Tamil scheme for migrant workers’ kids launched“We chose Tiruppur city to launch this scheme as growth and development of Tiruppur is linked to workers from other states. |
![]() | Four migrant workers die as compound wall of private college collapses in CoimbatoreFire and rescue personnel were able to save one worker, whereas four other labourers were pulled out dead from under the debris. |
![]() | Govt plans to conduct survey on all migrant workers in Tamil NaduAs per the first survey conducted in 2015-16, Tamil Nadu had 10.2 lakh migrant workers from West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and northeastern region. |
![]() | 60 per cent of migrant workers in Tamil Nadu lose out on govt benefitsStudy by NGO network on 361 migrant labourers in 4 dists finds majority of them are yet to register on e-Shram portal |
![]() | Under-construction flyover collapses in Hyderabad, nine injuredThe State government will cover all the treatment expenses, Rama Rao assured. |
![]() | Five migrant workers injured in LPG blast in CoimbatoreThe injured were identified as T Dharmveer (40), R Veerendrojha (37) R Anurag Singh (28) R Mahadev Singh (23) from Madhya Pradesh, and L Dhananjay Singh (33) from Uttar Pradesh. |
![]() | Odisha train crash: Injured migrant workers stare at uncertain futureThe Coromandel Express was carrying several migrants from Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha to Chennai. |
