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• Social Protection (India)

  India: 23 years on, a welfare fund for construction workers has done little for them

  22 April 2019, by BANERJEE Abhivyakti, RAIBAGI Kashyap

  Of the Rs 38,685.23 crore collected since 1996 as welfare cess, only 25.8% was spent by 2018.
  “I am at the naka (street corner where day workers are recruited) or at a site working all day. I can’t take care of her from there, so I prefer she come with me and earn a bit for the house,” said (...)

• Social Protection (India)

  India: It’s High Time We Acknowledge ‘Dignity of Work’

  29 March 2019, by HARSHVARDHAN

  While there is no inferiority in selling pakodas, doing so only due to lack of job opportunities and for the mere purpose of survival is an attack on a person’s dignity.
  According to the latest NSSO data, India is undergoing its worst job crisis in the last 45 years. Both male and female (...)

• Social Protection (India)

  India: What we know about Rahul Gandhi’s Rs 6,000 per month income scheme for the poor

  25 March 2019, by VENKATARAMAKRISHNAN Rohan

  The Nyuntam Aay Yojana, or minimum income scheme, promises Rs 72,000 per year to 50m households. But where will the money come from?
  When Congress President Rahul Gandhi announced in January that his party would provide a minimum income to the poor if it came to power in upcoming Lok Sabha (...)