One of India’s poorest states showed enterprise and initiative to bring back its workers home amid a raging pandemic Bhargabi Ghosh When...

The reappearance of smog and congestion signal thriving business and normal life in Mumbai’s massive slum Dharavi Prashant Nakwe MUMBAI, Maharashtra:  Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum, is also the epicentre of Mumbai’s unorganised economy, driven by India’s migrant labour workforce. For decades, workers from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra have built lives here while building the city’s economy through the more than 5,000 informal units located here

Cinema once held a mirror to the woes of India’s working class. But even the scenes of thousands marching home during the pandemic failed...

Preference for cities not too far from home, growing importance of children’s education and dipping bargaining power for wages, the...

Death of his brother on a railway track in Aurangabad district during the pandemic led to steel factory worker Birendra Singh vow to...

There has been a surge in internet adoption particularly in rural India post pandemic, but most migrant workers are yet to use their...

A  unique initiative to register migrant workers and connect them with social security schemes was launched in Jharkhand in 2020. Five...

Migrant workers continue to be prone to exploitation and discrimination, but unionizing a transient workforce pose unique challenges...

The main reason mainstream media in India covered the “great exodus” from our cities during the COVID-19 lockdown is because it was a...

For Mumbai’s migrant workers, train journeys home are a reminder of past hardships — and the fear of their return Hepzi Anthony Prashant...

A bunch of initiatives in Assam try to bring back migrant workers’ children to school, but the impact of the COVID-led break in their...

Five years after a nationwide lockdown was imposed to control the spread of Covid-19, which led to one of the largest exodus by migrant workers in India, the fear of living in cities remains Anuja

India's rural jobs guarantee scheme created jobs for thousands of men and women who left cities during the lockdown, and continues to...