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  2. Indian migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

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    The government of India launched the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan initiative to tackle the impact of COVID-19 on migrant workers in India. It is a rural public works scheme which was launched on 20 June 2020 with an initial funding of ₹ 50,000 crore (equivalent to ₹ 590 billion or US$6.8 billion in 2023) for 116 districts in 6 states.

  3. Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act, 1979 - Wikipedia

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    No working hours were fixed for interstate migrant workers and they had to work on all the days in a week under extremely bad working conditions. Twenty eighth State Labour Ministers conference held on 21-10-1976 recommended for setting up of a small compact committee to examine all issues and suggest measures for eliminating the abuses ...

  4. Labour in India - Wikipedia

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    About 30 million workers are migrant workers, most in agriculture, and local stable employment is unavailable for them. India's National Sample Survey Office in its 67th report found that unorganised manufacturing, unorganised trading/retail and unorganised services employed about 10 percent each of all workers nationwide, as of 2010.

  5. Chilling moment migrant family in India unwittingly follows ...

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    Migrant workers in India have been walking to their home states as work has dried up during the coronavirus pandemic. Video has emerged of a family following a leopard's trail, oblivious to its ...

  6. India's migrant workers face long walk home amid coronavirus ...

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    LUCKNOW/AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - After India imposed a 21-day nationwide lockdown on Tuesday to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the plywood factory near Uttar Pradesh's state capital ...

  7. Facing dire labor shortage, Israel recruits migrant workers ...

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    Indian workers submit registration forms seeking employment in Israel during a recruitment drive at the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Lucknow, capital of India's Uttar Pradesh state on ...

  8. Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan - Wikipedia

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    The Government of India launched the Gareeb Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan (GKRA) initiative to tackle the impact of COVID-19 on shramik (migrant) workers in India. [1] It is a rural public works scheme which was launched on 20 June 2020 with an initial funding of ₹ 50,000 crore (equivalent to ₹ 590 billion or US$6.9 billion in 2023).

  9. 2008 attacks on Uttar Pradeshi and Bihari migrants in ...

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    The Times of India summarised the cause of MNS's attacks—"There's a method in MNS's madness in attacking north Indians in Mumbai though, howsoever flawed it might be. Raj believes his cousin and Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray has been wooing the people from Bihar and UP—through a campaign he began back in 2005 with the inclusive call of Mee Mumbaikar—as his party's vote-bank.