Dhobi Ghat impractical, say laundry workers in Tamil Nadu's Srirangam

2 days, 21 hours ago

SKDRDP’s Sankranthi cleanliness drive to see 16,902 religious places cleaned across Karnataka

The Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project has planned to clean 16,902 places of prayer and worship across the State ahead of Makar Sankranti, from January 7 to 13. This drive is being conducted nearly for a decade as per the direction of pattadhikari and project president D. Veerendra Heggade as they believed that places of religious importance were part …

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6 days, 6 hours ago

Indian-origin CEO sparks debate with viral post: 'haven't done dishes in 4 years'

Hindustan Times

An Indian-origin CEO’s LinkedIn post sparked a debate about productivity, delegation, and the value of time. In his post, the CEO wrote, “Haven’t done dishes in 4 years. Because my time is worth $5,000/hour.” He explained the reasoning behind his decision, stating that delegating tasks like washing dishes, which could be outsourced for $15/hour, allowed him to focus on work …

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Textile units in India bringing in Bangladeshi workers illegally: Assam CM

The Hindu

The Centre may “strike” at textile units across the country for illegally bringing in workers from Bangladesh, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Wednesday. He said the police in Assam and Tripura have been apprehending 20 to 30 Bangladeshi “infiltrators every day and research” revealed that they were mostly textile workers rendered jobless after the ouster of the …

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2 weeks ago

‘Demographic suicide’: Zoho's Sridhar Vembu on 70-hour workweek suggestion

Hindustan Times

IT giant Zoho Corporation's CEO Sridhar Vembu recently questioned the 70-hour work week suggestion, talking about the dark side of working “ourselves to demographic suicide.” Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho Corporation said he believes the 70-hour workweek has greater pitfalls than benefits "The rationale behind the 70-hour work week is "it is necessary for economic development". If you look at …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

This Indian-origin CEO made controversial call for 14-hour workdays. No, it’s not Narayana Murthy or Bhavish Aggarwal

Hindustan Times

In 2024, work-life balance became a central topic of discussion on social media. Both Narayana Murthy and Bhavish Aggarwal have called for longer work weeks for Indian employees, and they are not alone in doing so. Work-life balance: a discussion Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal was among those who endorsed Narayana Murthy’s views on longer working hours. Among such number was …

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Narayana Murthy defends 70-hour workweek idea' Indians have a lot to do'

Hindustan Times

Narayana Murthy, the co-founder of Infosys, has justified his statement about a 70-hour workweek. Murthy said young people need to understand that "we have to work hard and work towards making India number one". Narayana Murthy made the remarks while speaking at the centenary celebration of the Indian Chamber of Commerce in West Bengal's Kolkata, a city he called "the …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Why Narayana Murthy believes Indians should work 70 hours a week

India Today

Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy defended his stance on the 70-hour workweek, highlighting that young people must recognise the importance of hard work to help India achieve the top global position. At the Indian Chamber of Commerce's centenary celebration in Kolkata, Narayana Murthy urged the youth to work hard to elevate India's global standing. According to Narayana Murthy, combating poverty requires …

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4 weeks ago

‘Swachhta Pakhwada’ concludes at NSTL

The Hindu

The Swachhata Pakhwada activities at the Naval Science & Technological Laboratory, which commenced with Mass Swachhata Shapath administered to all employees on December 2, concluded on December 13. A Swachhata awareness rally in NSTL residential complex, a drive for cleaning and repair of public toilets, a plantation drive were also organised, said an official statement issued on Friday. Scientists, officers, …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

'Smallest Businesses Feed 25 People': Dharavi Redevelopment & Fear of Job Losses

The Quint

"I am a small business owner. So, I alone am responsible for feeding 20-25 people," said Shivaji Shankar Khade, who owns a small unit that manufactures rexine bags in Mumbai's Dharavi area. "Most business units in Dharavi function like this with homes on the ground floor and business on the first storey. The Adani Group is redeveloping Dharavi — these …

Small Business Dharavi Ground Floor

2 months ago

When industrial unrest broke out in the textile mills of Coimbatore in 1948

The Hindu

Within six months of Independence, a major industrial unrest broke out in the textile sector of Coimbatore, an industrial city in the western Tamil Nadu. The case of the labour was represented by P. Ramamurti, vice-president, All-India Textile Workers’ Federation, who later became a key leader of the Communist Party of India, and G. Ramanujam, general secretary, National Textile Workers …

Labour Management Workers Owners Coimbatore Two Days Textile Mills

2 months ago

State health services director slams ‘poor’ hygiene at Ludhiana civil hospital

Hindustan Times

Punjab Health Services Corporation director Dr Anil Goyal on Thursday noted the ‘poor’ sanitation and cleanliness during a visit to the local civil hospital. A memorandum of demands was handed over to the director by User Charges Mulazim Sangharsh Committee president Raj Kumar. ‘Will take up issue with state health minister’ He said the PHSC has prepared a detailed note …

Raj Kumar

2 months ago

Government Announces Cotton Procurement Centres, Offers Support Price to Farmers

Deccan Chronicle

Government Chief Whip Aadi Srinivas urges cotton farmers to sell their produce at Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) procurement centres to receive the maximum support price (MSP) of Rs 7,521 per quintal. He also announces the establishment of 200 procurement centres and godowns for cotton storage in the district.

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3 months, 1 week ago

Ludhiana: Unsanitary public washroom at Janakpuri Market angers locals

Hindustan Times

The unsanitary condition of the sole public toilet at the entrance of Janakpuri Market has become a matter of concern for the shopkeepers, visitors and commuters. Manisha, a food cart vendor, said, “I have to endure the stench emanating from the washroom and see men urinate in the open.” Acknowledging the issue, MC zonal commissioner Neeraj Jain said, “We have …

Market Men Shop Janakpuri Market Washroom

3 months, 3 weeks ago

1,400 sanitation staff to be deployed in three shifts during Dasara festivities in Vijayawada

The Hindu

Vijayawada Municipal Corporation Commissioner H.M. Dhyanachandra on September 19 said 1,400 sanitation workers would be deployed in three shifts in 27 localities across the city, as part of the arrangements for the 10-day Dasara festivities between October 3 and 12. Thirty-five lakh drinking water bottles and packets are being readied for distribution among devotees and 150 temporary toilets and six …

Dasara

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Mirzapur district administration relents after stir, cancels contract for cremation ground

The Hindu

After an 11-day hunger strike, Panchu Dhaikar, 62, and six fellow protesters finally saw relief on September 13 when the Mirzapur district administration yielded to their demand to withdraw its decision to award management rights of the Bhogaon ghat to a contractor. With the Dom-Dhaikar community, a Scheduled Caste group, performing the cremation of bodies according to Hindu tradition for …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Centre to identify two lakh dirty spots for cleanliness in time-bound manner

The Hindu

The Centre will identify two lakh very difficult and dirty spots across the country and ensure their time-bound and result-oriented transformation as part of its flagship Swacchha Bharat Mission. These spots to be called Cleanliness Target Units would be identified and mapped through a portal, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal said on Friday. The campaign includes mega …

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4 months ago

Ludhiana: Market associations decry lack of washrooms

Hindustan Times

Despite clear instructions from the Punjab chief secretary this year, the municipal corporation has failed to deliver on its promise to construct public washrooms in various market areas. In March this year, during the Sarkar Vyapaar Milni, the chief secretary announced the plan to build 10 public washrooms in different market associations across Ludhiana. The announcement, made in the presence …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

At Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai, old broom sweeps clean

The Hindu

Violet-coloured linen keep arriving at the busy steam laundry unit at the State’s largest government hospital, Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital. As workers load the huge washing machines with batches of dirty linen, they all have a favourite in the midst of the swanky modern machines — a 77-year-old British-era washing machine. Until last week, one more British model machine …

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5 months ago

Workers under several govt. schemes terminated without explanation, allege unions

The Hindu

Several unions, part of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions and affiliated to the CPI, have alleged that many field assistants, ASHAs, municipal and midday meal scheme workers, among others, were being removed from their jobs. The unions of ASHAs, midday meal scheme workers, FAs, Village Organisation Assistants and others have been staging protests intermittently in Vijayawada for a month …

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5 months ago

SKDRDP to clean 16,797 places of prayer and worship during Independence Day cleanliness drive

The Hindu

The Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project, a non-government organisation, has planned to clean 16,797 places of prayer and worship across the State ahead of the Independence Day celebrations. This drive is being conducted nearly for a decade as per the direction of Pattadhikari and Project President D Veerendra Heggade and his wife Hemavathi V Heggade as they believed that …

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5 months ago

Encourage textile investments in border districts of Andhra Pradesh, Collectors told

The Hindu

Principal Secretary K. Sunitha has asked the Collectors to set up garmenting units, and encourage textile investments in border districts, among others, to make the handloom and textiles sector the second largest employment provider after agriculture. She instructed the Collectors to conduct exhibitions and encourage employees to wear handloom clothes every Monday. They could take financial assistance from NABARD for …

Handloom Collectors

5 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Dress code guidelines for malls, public places soon’: Karnataka DCM DK Shivakumar

Hindustan Times

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Monday condemned the denial of entry to a dhoti-clad farmer into a mall in Bengaluru and said that the government would bring out guidelines to stop the recurrence of incidents like this. "We will bring out guidelines to include traditional dresses like panche, dhoti and others so that malls and other places can't …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

MCG seeks to improve lives of sanitation staff through Swap plan

Hindustan Times

Gurugram Workers will be provided uniforms, essential gear and ensured that they get benefits from welfare schemes. Under the Sewage Worker’s Aid Program, the civic body is seeking to uplift and empower sanitation workers and their families, officials said. The programme also offers occupational training to improve their skills and efficiency in sewage management,” Balpreet Singh, additional commissioner of MCG, …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Garbage to Gold pilot project to start from Pithapuram: Pawan Kalyan

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan underlined that panchayats and municipalities in rural areas of Andhra Pradesh have the potential to earn approximately Rs 220 crore per month and Rs 2,640 crore annually, provided there is effective management of waste generated in these areas. “Further, by implementing zero waste management in rural areas, we can provide employment to around 2.5 …

Rural Areas Waste Pawan Kalyan Pithapuram Slrm Project

6 months ago

Include access to washrooms, safeguards against customer misbehaviour in draft Bill, say women gig workers

The Hindu

As the Karnataka government readies the Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers Bill, women workers with ride-hailing apps and on-demand home services companies have highlighted the need to include provisions that take into account the female workforce. Speaking at the Karnataka Gig and Platform Workers’ Convention held in Bengaluru on Wednesday, several women workers demanded that the Bill should include provisions ensuring …

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6 months ago

Garment company holds job mela at Madakasira

Deccan Chronicle

Anantapur: Bangalore-based exporter Indian Design Garments organised a job mela at Madakasira in Satya Sai district on Sunday to recruit skilled and unskilled employees. Indian Design Garments is setting up a unit at Madakasira. The job mela was organised at the Yadava Kalyana Mandapam in Madakasira town, where representatives of Indian Design Garments the industry at Madakasira unit conducted interviews. …

Skilled Madakasira Indian Design Garments Job Mela Garment Company

6 months, 1 week ago

Bengaluru-based Garment Industry Plans Units in Madakasara

Deccan Chronicle

Anantapur: Bengaluru-based Indian Design Garments would establish a unit in Madakasira in Satya Sai district. Raju, senior TD leader Sreenivasa Murthy and others discussed matters with the company heads in Bengaluru a couple of a days ago and promised governmental support to establish the unit in Madakasira. Similarly, another Bengaluru-based garment industry Texport Overseas Pvt Ltd has expressed its willingness …

Bengaluru Madakasira

6 months, 1 week ago

Daily wage workers struggling as 100-day job scheme is delayed this year, says association

The Hindu

The delay in commencing work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has adversely affected daily wage workers in rural areas of Karaikal. A. Backiyaraj, another daily wage worker from Nedungadu commune, said he too got only 70 days of work under the scheme last year. “We need 100 days of work as agricultural work is scarce and …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Municipal union opposes limiting inheritance rights of sanitation workers

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: Almost twenty-five years after the recommendations of the Lad Page committee instated preferential treatment for government employed-sanitation workers, allowing them to transfer their permanent jobs to their legal heirs after death, retirement or medical disqualification, the rules now stand to change. “The Lad Page committee recommendations were accepted by the Maharashtra government in 1975, as sanitation workers work in …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Under scorching sun, gig workers in capital brave long hours on jobs

New Indian Express

NEW DELHI: In the scorching heat of Delhi’s summer, amid the bustling streets and relentless sun, Sumit’s story unfolds with a poignant reminder of the challenges faced by gig workers. A former cook turned delivery man for Zepto, Sumit’s day begins before dawn, braving long hours and harsh conditions to make ends meet. Navigating Delhi’s crowded streets and scaling stairs …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Andhra Pradesh: Minister Lokesh Promises Solutions for Mangalagiri's Issues

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: Senior minister, Nara Lokesh, has assured the people of Mangalagiri, his constituency, on Sunday that solving their problems would be one of his priorities. Lokesh, holding the portfolios of IT, Electronics and Education, was participating in the Praja Darbar for the second consecutive day on Sunday to learn about the problems that the people of his home constituency faced. …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Sanitation workers’ kin to get ₹30 lakh ex-gratia in GB Nagar

Hindustan Times

NOIDA: The government authorities and departments in Gautam Budh Nagar district will now have to pay ₹30 lakh as compensation to the families of those sanitation workers who lose their lives while cleaning sewers, an official directive said on Friday. “The government bodies in urban areas including industrial development authorities such as Noida authority, Greater Noida Industrial Development authority, among …

Cleaning Workers Sanitation Noida District Gautam Budh Nagar Sewers

6 months, 4 weeks ago

Telangana Govt to set up Mahila Shakti Canteen Services, to be managed by women SHGs

The Hindu

In an initiative to financially strengthen women self-help groups, the Telangana government has announced setting up Mahila Shakti Canteen Services at all Collectorates, religious places, bus stands, and industrial areas. The government has studied similar canteen models running successfully in Kerala and under the name of ‘Didi ki Rasoi’ in West Bengal. The government aims to set up at least …

Telangana Canteen Canteens

7 months, 1 week ago

‘12 hours per day’: Nilesh Shah advocates longer work hours for India’s growth; Sanjeev Sanyal says ‘it is doable’

Live Mint

Nilesh Shah, CEO of Kotak AMC, has said that for India to accelerate its growth, one generation should adopt the work ethic seen in countries like Korea, Japan, and China, where people consistently work 12-hour days. He was speaking during a podcast, “Invest Aaj For Kal with Anant Ladha.” Ladha posted a clip of the podcast on the social networking …

India Shah Work Hours Sanjeev Sanyal

7 months, 1 week ago

Sanitation workers rely on residents for water and toilet facilities amid rising heat; Chennai Corporation to look into improving measures

The Hindu

With the city experiencing high temperatures again this summer, sanitation workers are mostly dependent on residents for drinking water and toilet facilities as they run out of water that they bring from their homes and the public toilets are in a bad shape or found locked. Working at nights Residents in low-income areas, mostly in north Chennai, are usually more …

Chennai Water Workers Facilities Residents Toilet Ors

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Smriti Irani: ‘BJD govt is looting people of Odisha people 24x7; vote for BJP for good governance’

Deccan Chronicle

Bhubaneswar: Union minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani on Saturday sought to portray Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal as a “patron of Tamil Nadu contractor” and said the state government’s “remote control was in Tamil Nadu.” Irani’s observation was seen as an allusion to the growing influence V Karthikeyan Pandian, a Tamil Nadu-born IAS officer-turned politician, on Odisha chief minister …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Chennai Corporation sanitary workers protest demanding regularisation and salary hike

The Hindu

“The toilets of the Greater Chennai Corporation are not in a usable condition. She was among many, employed under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission, who staged a protest led by Left Trade Union Centre members at the GCC Zone 5 office in Basin Bridge demanding their jobs be made permanent and a salary hike. M. Muniammal, 52, another sanitary …

Gcc Salary Hike Demanding Regularisation

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Textile units in Tamil Nadu face labour shortage

The Hindu

Textile clusters in Tamil Nadu, which were hit by steep drop in orders for the last two years, are now facing a new challenge - shortage of workers. K. Selvaraju, secretary general of the Southern India Mills’ Association, said wages had increased 20% for textile workers in Rajasthan and 28% in Odisha. With a large number of workers from other …

Tamil Nadu Workers Textile

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Washing machine hasn’t worked for Modi: Supriya Shrinate

Hindustan Times

Lucknow : Congress’ social media chairperson, party national spokesperson and member CWC Supriya Shrinate who fought the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Maharajganj seat, is now campaigning for party candidate Virendra Chaudhary, against BJP candidate Pankaj Chaudhary in her hometown. She inaugurated the Congress candidate’s election office and spoke to Gaurav Saigal on various aspects of the general election that …

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8 months ago

‘Destruction of jobs’: India election turns spotlight on a dream gone sour

Al Jazeera

India’s workforce is getting more informalised, and the quality of employment has suffered since the COVID-19 pandemic. Sahu’s experience is characteristic not only of India’s growing gig economy, but Even in the formal sector, about 18 percent of workers did not have work contracts that could protect them. ‘Slippage’ in job quality While India’s economy is pegged to grow at …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Heat wave prompts call for rest breaks for sanitation workers in Coimbatore

The Hindu

With the heat wave continuing across Coimbatore district, concerns for the well-being of sanitation workers have surged, as the All India Trade Union Congress has called for rest period for workers after 11 a.m. The AITUC’s appeal in Coimbatore comes in the wake of its State vice-president N. Selvaraj’s submission of a petition to Coimbatore Corporation, seeking the implementation of …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Ludhiana: Mid-day meal workers dissatisfied with edu dept’s guidelines

Hindustan Times

In the wake of the recent accident at the government school in Machhiwara Kham village where a mid-day meal worker died while working in the school’s kitchen, the education department issued guidelines intended for the safety of these workers, but the workers still remain disconcerted over the demands unmet. Mid-day meal workers union’s district president Parveen Kumari expressing her dissatisfaction …

School Workers Meal Cotton Clothes

8 months, 4 weeks ago

Faded fingerprints fail dhobis at PDS shops in Tamil Nadu

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY : It’s a hot summer day in Alagiripuram by the banks of Kollidam river in Tiruchy. The discharge of untreated sewage into the stream and fewer job opportunities for their children are the other pressing issues the dhobis deal with year in, year out. Over 300 dhobi families live at Alagiripuram, a place resembling collective penury, as almost all …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Hyderabad: Dhobis Set High Standards of Water Conservation

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: On World Water Day it would be worthy to pay a tribute to the practitioners of a profession whose livelihood revolves around the use of water and yet they set standards when it comes to water conservation — the friendly washerman. Most of them wash clothes at ghats like Musi and at Lower Tank Bund and hardly use HMWS&SB …

Water Tank Bund

9 months, 4 weeks ago

Cots, LCDs, 24x7 kitchen: Farmers at Shambhu prepared for a long haul

Hindustan Times

On an overcast afternoon at Shambhu, 28-year-old Amrik Singh, a farmer from Mangat Kaer village of Muktsar Sahib, is seen covering his tractor trailer with a tarpaulin sheet. We have already lost seven of our men but our community continues to be disciplined.” Jaswinder Singh, 55, of Kaboolpura village in Patiala, who was spotted watching news on a small LCD …

Farmers Protest Singh Shambhu Farmer

10 months ago

Bengaluru water crisis: Chorus grows for work from home option for employees

Hindustan Times

Bengaluru's water crisis is taking a toll on residents. Mandate work from home: Bengaluru people urge govt amid ongoing water crisis On social media, users are urging government and companies to mandate for work from home so employees can go back to their native places. An X user named Naveen Kopparam wrote, “Please instruct IT organisations based in Bengaluru to …

Bengaluru Water Mandate Work

11 months, 1 week ago

Tamil Nadu: Labour crisis grips Tiruppur as UP migrants return home over increased job opportunities

Op India

The Pran Pratishtha of Bhagwan Ram Lalla at the Ayodhya Ram Mandir not only enlivened the supreme deity but also the fortune and economy of Uttar Pradesh. However, a migrant worker crisis has engulfed the Tirruppur apparel industry as the migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh are returning to their homeland with job opportunities opening up in their home state, especially …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Following SC orders, cleaning work of Wazukhana area of Gyanvapi mosque completed

New Indian Express

VARANASI: The cleaning work of the Wazukhana or ablution area of the Gyanvapi mosque was completed on Saturday under the supervision of the district magistrate of Varanasi, members of both the Hindu and Muslim sides said. The district administration carried the cleaning work following orders of the Supreme Court. Advocate of the Hindu side Sudhir Tripathi said the cleaning work …

Cleaning Work Hindu Wazukhana Area Mosque Completed

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Maharashtra anganwadi workers’ strike: 46 days of asking for more

The Hindu

On New Year’s Day, when holiday-goers from Mumbai lazily headed back into the city, thousands of women across Maharashtra, many clad in pink saris and salwar kameez, packed their bags to march to the State capital. As of December 2023, Maharashtra has 1,10,465 anganwadi centres and 1,08,507 anganwadi workers, as per Poshan Tracker, a mobile-based application rolled out by the …

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