During the lockdown period many migrants in urban areas returned to their home towns in rural areas. What was their source of livelihood there? Were the schemes effective implemented? This blog looks into Jan Dhan Yojana and MGNREGS. People migrate for better livelihood, especially, to urban areas. In India, the internal migrants have increased from […]
Posts Tagged ‘migrants’
Ensuring livelihood for migrants
lakshmi on November 17th, 2020
International Women’s Day at PEPUS
lakshmi on April 3rd, 2018
International Womens Day was organized by PEPUS on 8th March, 2018 & programs were organized in the project area. International Women’s Day programmes were organized in Aanapur,Korari & Karimuddinpur villages of Kaudihar block, Dist.- Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. Adolescent’s girls and Women from the migrant families along with other women attended the meetings held by the […]
Posted in Construction Workers, Migration and Development, Urbanization, Women Migrants 
Tags: migrants, women's day 
No Comments »Response on affordable housing in the Union #Budget2018
lakshmi on February 5th, 2018
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 […]
Tribune oped: For informal workers, ‘notebandi’ equals ‘paisabandi’
Mukta Naik on January 2nd, 2017
Mukta Naik, Eesha Kunduri & Manish (The original piece appeared in The Tribune on 28 December 2016) A sweeping indictment of cash needs to be replaced with a more nuanced understanding of the cash-driven economy. We need measures to protect those who are genuinely cash-dependent. The cash economy is multilayered, involving cash payments at multiple […]
Podcast: Coping with ‘notebandi’: Voices of informal workers
Mukta Naik on January 2nd, 2017
Life has been hard following demonetisation, especially so for informal workers who constitute as per the NCEUS’ 2007 report, about 92% of India’s workforce. In Delhi, many of these informal workers are also migrants. But behind the stories of hardship, there is the reality of coping mechanisms and a variety of strategies that have helped […]
Posted in Financial Inclusion, Livelihoods, Migration and Development Tags: black money, cash, cashless, common good, demonetisation, Demonetization, digital, economy, evidence, fieldworks, hardship, homeless, India, informal workers, livelihoods, migrants, Modi, nationalism, notebandi, PM Modi, policy No Comments »Community perceptions: How #Demonetisation impacts migrants
Mukta Naik on November 29th, 2016
This morning I was roped in to speak about the impacts of demonetisation on migrant workers by Gurgaon ki Awaz, a community radio station in Gurgaon, where I live. I was speaking on a live show with the mandate to highlight systemic problems that might impact migrant workers in particular ways in this predicament, when […]
Posted in Financial Inclusion, Labour Markets, political Inclusion, Political Rights Tags: banking, demonetisation, exclusion, identity, inclusion, migrants, politics No Comments »
