Decoding Rajasthan’s Right to Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill, 2023 | In Focus podcast
1 year, 7 months ago

Decoding Rajasthan’s Right to Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill, 2023 | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

The Rajasthan government on July 21 passed the Right to Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill, 2023, a legislation that has been hailed as a ‘historic’ step towards the fulfilment of a state’s social security obligations towards citizens. The Bill has three key elements: a right to guaranteed employment, right to a minimum guaranteed income – which is not to be confused with a minimum income guarantee, or what is known as Universal Basic Income or UBI – and a right to guaranteed minimum social security pension. Guest: Nikhil Dey, a social activist who works with the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatan and Suchna Evum Rozgar Adhikar Abhiyan. Host: G. Sampath, Social Affairs Editor, The Hindu Edited by Jude Francis Weston Listen to more In Focus podcasts:

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Economic inequality on the rise since liberalisation: Prabhat Patnaik
1 year, 2 months ago

Economic inequality on the rise since liberalisation: Prabhat Patnaik

The Hindu  

The benefit of economic growth is not flowing to large sections of the population, and as a result, economic inequality, which had reduced between 1950 and 1980, is showing an alarming increase post-liberalisation, said Prabhat Patnaik, renowned economist and political commentator. Mr. Patnaik said the unions’ demand for an old age pension of ₹3,000 per month was truly justified and …

Rajasthan Election: Congress announces seven poll guarantees, promises Old Pension Scheme, LPG subsidy
1 year, 4 months ago

Rajasthan Election: Congress announces seven poll guarantees, promises Old Pension Scheme, LPG subsidy

India TV News  

Rajasthan Assembly Elections: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday announced seven guarantees for the people of the state ahead of the upcoming assembly elections, including a law on Old Pension Scheme, and providing a laptop or a tablet to government college students, if his government is reelected in the November 25 elections. Here's Congress' seven guarantees in Rajasthan Gruha …

Formulate Right to Social Security Act: CM Gehlot Urges PM Modi
1 year, 6 months ago

Formulate Right to Social Security Act: CM Gehlot Urges PM Modi

News 18  

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring Right to Social Security Act and implement it in the entire country. “I would like to demand that the prime minister formulate Right to Social Security Act as the Manmohan Singh government brought four Acts – Right to Information Act, Right to Education Act, Food Security …

Raj laws can spur a new welfare model
1 year, 7 months ago

Raj laws can spur a new welfare model

Hindustan Times  

Rajasthan passed two important laws — the Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill, 2023 and the Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers Bill, 2023 — this week. But beyond the hyperbole, these laws signify an opportunity to re-engage with important and deeply contested ideas of citizenship, rights, and State-building, that have long shaped India’s stumbling efforts at building a welfare State. If …

Drawn from gig workers’ struggles, hewn in Rajasthan
1 year, 7 months ago

Drawn from gig workers’ struggles, hewn in Rajasthan

The Hindu  

The Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers Act 2023, passed in the Rajasthan Assembly on July 24, is a powerful example of how labour law draws its strength from workers’ struggles and victories of the past, even as “the workers of the world” respond to new relationships of employers, employees, and workers rights in the evolving future. They demanded social security …

Rajasthan govt tables India’s first gig workers rights bill
1 year, 7 months ago

Rajasthan govt tables India’s first gig workers rights bill

Live Mint  

In a bid a become India's first state to guarantee social security to gig workers, Rajasthan on Friday tabled the Rajasthan Platform Based GIG Workers Bill, 2023. 'The Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers Welfare Board' will be established in the state where the gig workers of the state will be registered with all the aggregators of the state. The government …

In election-bound Rajasthan, Congress brings in Bill promising minimum guaranteed income
1 year, 7 months ago

In election-bound Rajasthan, Congress brings in Bill promising minimum guaranteed income

The Hindu  

Congress-led Ashok Gehlot government on Tuesday introduced ‘The Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill, 2023’ in the Assembly, what is widely expected to be the last session before the State goes for polls in less than four months. The legislation, for the first time in the country, provides legislative backing for urban employment guarantee schemes and also makes pension a legal …

Rajasthan Drafts Bill For Gig Workers: Will It Hold Aggregators Accountable?
1 year, 10 months ago

Rajasthan Drafts Bill For Gig Workers: Will It Hold Aggregators Accountable?

The Quint  

While speaking to The Quint, researchers and union leaders said that a lot rides on how the draft bill is implemented and the welfare policies that it chooses to focus on. Harish Gautam, executive committee member of the App Workers’ Union, said, “The bill proposes the establishment of a welfare board, which is appreciated but the reality of other sections …

Promising Bill: The Hindu Editorial on the Rajasthan Platform-based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Bill, 2023
1 year, 10 months ago

Promising Bill: The Hindu Editorial on the Rajasthan Platform-based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Bill, 2023

The Hindu  

With an estimated eight million people employed in an industry built on the back of the smartphone revolution, “gig” work has become a major source of jobs for youth in India. Adding this to the fact that gig workers are not recognised as “workers” but partners by most aggregating platforms and that they lack any social security or related benefits …

As Rajasthan revives pension scheme, Congress asks Centre to replicate it
3 years ago

As Rajasthan revives pension scheme, Congress asks Centre to replicate it

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday praised the revival of the old pension scheme in Rajasthan and urged the Centre to replicate it for government employees across India. “They should understand that the Congress has always protected their interests, and an example of this is Ashok Gehlot’s decision in Rajasthan,” said Congress leader Ajay Maken. “For the first time since …

'Will provide financial subsistence to construction workers': Rajasthan tells SC
3 years, 3 months ago

'Will provide financial subsistence to construction workers': Rajasthan tells SC

Hindustan Times  

Rajasthan government has informed the Supreme Court that its building and other Construction Workers Welfare Board, has granted financial and administrative sanction to authorities concerned for minimum wages to construction workers who are rendered idle due to prohibition on construction activity pursuant to the order of the top court in NCR region of the state of Rajasthan. "That, the Building …

Already started preparations for minimum income guarantee as promised by Rahul Gandhi, says Ashok Gehlot
6 years, 1 month ago

Already started preparations for minimum income guarantee as promised by Rahul Gandhi, says Ashok Gehlot

Firstpost  

Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday said he has already started preparations about the scheme. Jaipur: Welcoming Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s announcement of minimum income guarantee to poor, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday said he has already started preparations about the scheme. He said that the governments formed by the Congress in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh …

Rahul Gandhi's minimum income guarantee scheme based on idea of Universal Basic Income: The concept and its feasibility
6 years, 1 month ago

Rahul Gandhi's minimum income guarantee scheme based on idea of Universal Basic Income: The concept and its feasibility

Firstpost  

A Universal Basic Income scheme involves paying all citizens a certain monthly sum unconditionally, regardless of whether they work and how much they earn. At a rally in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur on Monday, he announced that if the Congress was voted to power in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, it will implement a minimum income guarantee scheme that will ensure that …

Five Important Principles relating to Compulsory Retirement
8 years, 6 months ago

Five Important Principles relating to Compulsory Retirement

Live Law  

Recently the High Court of Rajasthan while upholding an order of Compulsory retirement of an Additional District & Sessions Judge under Rule.53 of the Rajasthan Civil Service Pension Rules, 1996, has re-iterated the following principles relating to Compulsory retirement as summarized by the Supreme Court in Baikuntha Nath Das & Anr. Principles of natural justice have no place in the …

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