There has been a strong focus on improving the sanitation situation in the last decade in India due to the Government of India ’s flagship program called Swachh Bharat Mission. Recognising the high level of social and economic vulnerability and discrimination faced by sanitation workers, GoI and several state governments have initiated many programmes and schemes, including social protection measures …
Employees of the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram on Monday again deferred their strike to protest the suspension of a superintending engineer following a tiff with the mayor. They have now decided to wait till Friday, September 24, for the Haryana government to reinstate the SE, members of the engineers’ union said. Following a tiff with mayor Madhu Azad regarding the …
India is in the midst of a massive jobs crisis. In Madhya Pradesh, the new State government has launched the “Yuva Swabhiman Yojana” which provides employment for both skilled and unskilled workers among urban youth. What shape an urban employment guarantee programme should take can be widely debated. An urban employment guarantee programme not only improves incomes of workers but …
