Migrant construction workers living in Mumbai are one of the most vulnerable communities of city’s urban poor. Maharashtra has a share of 10.75 percent of construction workers out of a total 3.7 million migrant workers. Mumbai (suburban) alone has 1.2 million migrant workers, out of which 9.12 percent are construction workers. Considering the fact that […]
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Construction industry is a health hazard
Aritra Chakrabarty on November 6th, 2014
Construction industry is labor intensive in India, because labor is cheap and available in abundance. The industry is one of the biggest employers (third largest) in India, with seven percent contribution to GDP. According to the Planning Commission’s XI-Plan document, employment in the construction sector in India has witnessed a steady increase from 14.6 million […]
Mobility across gender-findings from NSS 64th round survey
Aritra Chakrabarty on October 14th, 2014
Mobility from one place to another is an important part of human existence. Migration in that sense is viewed as an integral part of overall economic and individualistic human development. Though social, cultural, political, personal and natural forces have a bearing on migration, viewing it as an economic phenomenon receives special attention. People may be […]
Displaced from habitat: Tribals of Chhattisgarh
Aritra Chakrabarty on September 23rd, 2014
Migration from Chhattisgarh has been primarily driven by astute poverty conditions and inherent political instability. Drought prone areas of the state have recorded steady flow of men and women to other regions. Similarly, the presence of Naxalists has added to further problems for the population, majority of which, in some regions is Scheduled Tribes. They […]
How a drought shapes the choice of livelihood
Aritra Chakrabarty on August 26th, 2014
There are over 25,000 (female) sex workers in the city of Hyderabad, higher than any other city in India. Of them, 60 percent are women who migrated from villages and were forced to enter the sex trade as they had no other earning alternative. Women and children are forced to migrate to the city from […]
Treating urbanization as complementary in nature
Aritra Chakrabarty on July 18th, 2014
Projections released by United Nations in its 2014 revision of World Urbanization Prospects report predict increase in urban population to 65 percent in 2050 from 54 percent presently. This implies an additional 2.5 billion people living in urban areas by 2050, highlighting the need of urban planning agenda and greater attention needs to be laid […]
Giving a voice to the migrant: The question of inclusion
Aritra Chakrabarty on June 9th, 2014
After the stupendous success of the NDA coalition, specifically the BJP in the just concluded general elections, we’ve got down to discuss and analyze the reasons behind this comeback, not witnessed in the largest democracy of the world since 1984. The BJP won the general elections, with 282 seats on its own. The alliance has […]
Small successes define larger outcomes
Aritra Chakrabarty on May 19th, 2014
P. Susama Kukumistays at Kandasar village of Ganjam district with her family. Being the eldest daughter of the family, the responsibility of providing income rested on her. After her marriage to a person of nearby village, conditions where hoped to improve. With a family of her own now and her husband without work, she started […]
Recognizing migration in global development agenda
Aritra Chakrabarty on April 16th, 2014
As of today, one out of seven persons in the world is either an international or internal migrant. This has led to rising awareness of migration and its importance as a public good. In the post-2015 Global Development Agenda, migration should be recognized explicitly and its associated factors be given due emphasis. The Report of […]
Uttar Pradesh as a migration hub (PANI)
Aritra Chakrabarty on April 14th, 2014
Uttar Pradesh has traditionally remained as the centre of in-migration, particularly for labourers belonging to lower social classes. It is one of the most sought destinations and a prominent migration corridor for further out-migration. Most of the migrants work as casual and wage labourers with very limited or devoid of any educational attainment. They lack […]
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