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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.
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$6.8 billion in 2023).
The Act's purpose was to protect workers whose services are requisitioned outside their native states in India. Whenever an employer faces shortage of skills among the locally available workers, the act created provisions to employ better skilled workers available outside the state.
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 ...
Bihar has a per capita income of $936 a year against India's average of $2,624. Given this income disparity, migrant workers moved to better paid locations and offered to work at lower rates. [9] For example, in Tamil Nadu inter-state migrant construction workers are paid about ₹. 300 to ₹. 400 a day against the minimum of ₹. 750 per day ...
eMigrate is an Indian digital portal developed by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India in 2014. [1] It automates emigration processes and facilitates a safety and legal support to Indian workers employed abroad, particularly blue-collar laborers. [2] [3]
The number of migrant workers in Kerala is much larger compared to only 16 lakh (1.6 million) Keralites working outside India [12] In 2013, the number of migrant workers in Kerala was almost one-tenth of that of the local population which was about 33 million in 2011. It is estimated to rise as high as 48 lakhs (4.8 million) by 2023 despite the ...
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.