Blog by Nivedita Jayaram and Sangeeth S, Centre for Migration and Labour Solutions, Aajeevika Bureau. The Union Budget announced a fund for Affordable Housing, and committed to provide assistance for building 3.7 million housing units in urban areas in 2018-19 under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (#PMAY). However, this does little to resolve the housing […]
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Response on affordable housing in the Union #Budget2018
lakshmi on February 5th, 2018
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Internal Migration conundrum in India
Sarabjit Kaur on February 2nd, 2017
The first-ever estimates of internal work-related migration using railways data for the period 2011-2016 indicate an annual average flow of close to 9 million migrant people between the states.
Economic Survey 2017 says labour migration higher than earlier estimates
Sarabjit Kaur on February 2nd, 2017
According to data cited in the survey, Delhi was the largest recipient of migrants, accounting for more than half the number in 2015-16. People from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar accounted for almost half the migrants in the same period.
