Once Employment Exchanges were the most sought after centres for unemployed youth to get jobs. In an era of internet and job portals, what’s happening to them?
No one wishes to immerse themselves in filth, but someone ends up doing it. Despite the almost inhuman conditions and the lack of dignity, garbage collectors continue to do that job, due to financial compulsions.
Lives in this Bengaluru slum are an example of everything that’s wrong with the system: unchecked urbanisation, poor waste management and lack of formal contracts for waste pickers in our cities.
Why did the garment workers protest in April 2016, against new provident fund rules? How was the protest handled by the state, and what did the protesters who were arrested undergo? PUCL published a fact-finding report.
The language problem and the not-so-easy paperwork is making it difficult for construction workers to avail the benefits of the labour welfare schemes designed by the government.
