KAS celebrated International Migrants Day by giving empahsis on the growing concern of Child labour and their rights. Experts from different NGOs participated and tries to create awareness about the need to stop child labour.
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Destination Visit to Tiruppur Tamil Nadu : Debadutta Club
Sarabjit Kaur on January 5th, 2016
Destination Visit To Tiruppur Tamil Nadu Dt-22.10.2015 to 28.10.2015 Venue- Tiruppur,Achampalayam,Nilipalayam & Anur Dist- Tiruppur Org by- Debadatta Club Grindolmal Bargarh Odisha Supported by- TATA TRUST Mumbai Debadatta Club Migration Project Staff & Shramikmitra organized a Destination visit from 22.10.2015 to 28.10.2015 to Tamil Nadu state in different places along with different factory workers.
Legal literacy camp: PEPUS
Radhika M. Chakraborty on August 25th, 2015
Last month, PEPUS organised a legal literacy camp for migrant workers at Patti Pervejabad, Kaushambi District, Uttar Pradesh. Due to the lack of basic legal knowledge, migrant workers are unable to fight for justice. In order to educate workers about different legal safeguards provisioned by the Constitution and by law, a legal literacy camp was organised, […]
Violence, exploitation and lives lost: Parda case study
Radhika M. Chakraborty on July 15th, 2015
Parda shares the story of the death of a migrant worker at a brick kiln from Nuapada. Such narratives of vulnerability must serve as impetus for proper inquiry into working conditions and redressal mechanisms. Names have been changed to protect identities.
Agrasar Bachpan: Prerit Rana
Radhika M. Chakraborty on July 14th, 2015
Prerit Rana, CEO and co-founder of Agrasar shares the story of how Agrasar Bachpan, their latest initiative, came into being. Agrasar is located in 1173, Sector-45, Gurgaon, Haryana, and works with education, employability, and migration.
India on the Move: Unravelling the Black Box of Commuting
S Chandrasekhar on June 23rd, 2015
In the last couple of decades, the number of two-way commuters between rural and urban areas on a daily basis has seen an explosive growth. This includes a large number of workers engaged in menial service sector jobs who do not have a fixed place of work. One could go out on a limb and […]
Legal clinics, BOCW linkages, and mobile kiosks: SSK’s recent interventions
Radhika M. Chakraborty on June 22nd, 2015
During the month of May, SSK organized Legal Clinic Day, facilitated the linking of workers to their entitlements under the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment & Conditions of Service) Act, and set up two mobile kiosks at fairs and market places to share details about facilities and schemes available for migrant workers.
Odia Plumbers’ Collective meet- celebrating cultural identity: Gram-Utthan
Radhika M. Chakraborty on June 8th, 2015
Gram Utthan has been organising plumbers’ collective gatherings in Mumbai for the past two years. Also being a celebration of Maha Bisuba Panasankranti, Odia Nababarsa and Ambendkar Jayanti, this day was an important one for Mumbai Odia migrants. Nearly 300 Odia migrants celebrated Odia Nababarsa along with the plumbers’ collective meeting.
Legislating child labour: Need for wider social reform
Radhika M. Chakraborty on June 1st, 2015
The recent amendments to the Child Labour Act passed by the Cabinet last month allow for children below the age of 14 to work in non-hazardous industries or ‘family businesses’, so long as this does not affect their education. Response to the amendment has been mixed, with some activists calling for a total ban on […]
Birbal, a new initiative to help you help others: Agrasar
Mukta Naik on March 4th, 2015
Innovation and creativity are key to social sector initiatives. For Agrasar, which is a not for profit organisation based in the National Capital Region, finding creative solutions that meet an immediate need has been an effective strategy. Agrasar operates 5 vocational training centres in Gurgaon, Saharanpur and Haridwar; however, our long-term interest is in providing […]
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