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Hi Reader, It's been over a year since migrant laborers made the front page of newspapers with their mass exodus from cities during the first lockdown. The COVID-19 pandemic not only highlighted their precarious livelihoods but also emphasised the essential role they play in the functioning of urban centres. Let's revisit some of these themes under the current socio-political climate, and follow some new developments in their world of skilling and employment. In this issue, we will also dive deep into the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2021-a citizen-led household survey that explores the pandemic's impact on children's learning, and the current challenges faced by teachers and students with schools reopening. |
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Where are India's Migrant Laborers Now? |
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Female Migrant Workers Women migrant workers constitute a large section of essential workers but are low-paid, face intersecting forms of discrimination and inequalities, and are often left out of labour and migration policies. The act of migration itself adds higher vulnerability risks for women especially the risk of exploitation and violation, however, the reverse migration during the pandemic has left them more vulnerable with the loss of economic opportunities as well. This video is an attempt to draw attention to the plight of women migrant workers during the pandemic and highlight the systemic inequalities. |
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| | Social Security and Welfare Measures for Interstate Migrants 4 MIN READ Migrant labourers are predominantly engaged in high-risk and low paying jobs, lack social security, and proper accommodation. This report highlights how the pandemic has forced both the Government and the civil society members to focus on the large-scale reverse migration of these labourers. | | |
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| | Temporary Shared Migration 5 MIN READ This report by ILO 2021 sheds light on temporary labour migration programs which are expanding and is the centre of attraction. This report documents the outcome of the interviews conducted by the authors in different areas of local migration law from small ventures to global organizations. | | |
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Children's Learning in the Time of Pandemic The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is a citizen-led household survey that provides nationally representative estimates of children’s schooling status and their foundational reading and arithmetic skills. In its standard format, the survey reaches children in the age group of 3-16 in rural districts of India. This year, more than 3,000 volunteers across the country spoke to parents and teachers to understand how children in the age group of 5-16 have studied at home since the onset of the pandemic and the challenges that schools and households now face as schools reopen. Watch the video to find out more about this year's findings. |
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News from across the Sector |
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ORF Online: The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the harsh uninhabitable conditions of India’s so-called backbone of economy ‘migrant workers’. It’s eye-opening how migrants have been living under such scabrous circumstances. Read more here. |
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Insufficient housing supply for migrants has become a big issue. To overcome this problem, 42,000 tenements are under construction & have been sanctioned but rental housing is only available for migrants in Mumbai. Find out more here. |
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e-Shram portal was developed for creating a national database of unorganised workers which will be seeded with Aadhaar including details like their name, occupation, address, educational qualifications, etc. It will include migrant workers, construction workers, and aims to extend benefits of social secuirty schemes to them. More details here. |
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| | Impatient Weaver Manjiri Murgeshan began her journey into weaving by attending few workshops between her regular architecture lectures. What started as a hobby with limited resources, today Manjiri is a tapestry artist with her own business. "Weaving is meditation where I can create something new with my own hands". | | |
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| | Grit to Teach Nothing can dim the indomitable spirit of Sadaf Anwar who in spite of being quarantined due to COVID-19 continued teaching online beauty classes. Sadaf says it’s very important to lead students by example, and she wanted to show students that with proper precautions and care, one can endure anything. | | |
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