Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for 97 industries at the 4-digit disaggregate level …
Based on fieldwork in the Tiruppur garment manufacturing cluster in Tamil Nadu, this paper focuses on the ways in which ethical corporate regulations are shaped by and constitutive of power relations and inequalities in the global market. It explores the ways in which standards imposed on supply firms help to …
The story of UCIL-Jaduguda and the struggle of the mostly Santal Adivasi People against the company is not unknown to the general public. UCIL has been operating for over four decades now. Many of the social problems like the just compensation for the land acquired, cost of medical treatment for …
Sangeetha Neeraja AN UNOFFICIAL BAN ON EXPLOSIVES DURING POLLS HAS SEVERELY AFFECTED THEIR LIVELIHOOD THE life of a quarry worker is hardly an enviable one, consisting, as it does, of hours of hard grinding labour under the scorching sun. And the election season has only made things worse for them. …
Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva, said an unprecedented anti-malaria campaign was underway in Sri Lanka. He said affected countries, NGOs, donor governments, researchers and international agencies were joining hands to control and eventually eradicate this scourge from the globe. Minister de Silva speaking before a gathering of …
labour welfare ignored: The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre and state governments of Haryana and Delhi on a public interest petition seeking welfare measures for mine and construction workers. The petition filed by non-profit People
A wage settlement was recently signed between United Limited Mine Workers Union (UMWU) and the management of Chowgule and Company Ltd, to offer better benefits to its workers. The wage settlement is for company
In India, the ILO report says, casual workers earn 45 per cent less than regular workers. THE World of Work Report 2008: Income Inequalities in the Age of Financial Globalization, produced by the International Labour Organisation
There has been considerable debate in India about the impact of growth on employment especially in the organised manufacturing sector for different periods since the early 1980s. However, changes in the coverage of the Annual Survey of Industries demand a fresh look at the issue over a longer period. This …
Lack of creche exposing them to risk, says NGO activist Sangeetha Neeraja | ENS Chennai, THE children of the brick kiln workers have this characteristic lost look with sun bleached hair, with faces tainted with running noses, unclothed and unattended, they play in sand and everywhere. February 21 was no …
Workers leave tea gardens for better NREGA wages More than 5,000 tea garden workers in Tripura have switched jobs in the past six months. They have found a better option in the works under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega), 2005, leaving a tea industry in crisis in their …
HUNDREDS of contract workers engaged by local bodies and water supply and sewerage boards in major cities and towns to clean underground sewers virtually walk into death traps. A large number of them die instantaneously after inhaling noxious fumes in the sewers. Others die a slow death from respiratory and …
Once covered with lush teak forests, Pati block in Badwani district of Madhya Pradesh now has a depressing lunar landscape of denuded hills, where only subsistence agriculture is possible. Most rural households there survive on wage labour and seasonal migration. The Jagrut Adivasi Dalit Sangathan (JADS), an unregistered organisation with …
Press Trust Of India / New Delhi October 03, 2008, 0:59 IST Agriculturists in Punjab seem to be struggling this season to hire migrant farm workers from Bihar and are believed to be using novel ways, like offering free cell phones, to lure them. The lower scale of seasonal migration …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Various labour laws will apply to the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in Kerala, says the policy approved by the Cabinet here on Monday. The policy stipulates that 70 per cent of the land in an SEZ will have to be used for industrial purposes. Residential accommodation could be provided …
Lakshmi Rajamani Tiruchy THE quarries in Thuvakudi that were once bustling with activity, with the clang of chisels reverberating the area, wear a desolate look, with the rocks standing testimony to the calm that has descended the area. Work at the quarries started when the National Highway work was undertaken …
India is truly an amazing place: it is both a graveyard of concepts that flourish happily elsewhere, and a breeding ground for those that survive only in our conditions. Terms such as class, status, nation state, and community have already undergone significant modifications in the Indian setting. These changes have …
