By Roger Moody
Half-a-million labourers are employed in the natural stone industry of Rajasthan alone, so it’s impossible to calculate exactly how many people toil all over India to supply the stone, cement and bricks of the boom-time construction industry. Yet, India still clings to elementary methods of extraction using bonded labourers, many of them female and under 14, with absolutely no safeguards Read more »
by VIJAY SIMHA, From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 7, Issue 41, Dated October 16, 2010 Read more »
By Sanjiv Pandita .from InfoChange News & Features, April 2009
India has had legislation on occupational safety and health for 50 years. But regulatory authorities are limited to 1,400 safety officers, 1,154 factory inspectors, and 27 medical inspectors. These numbers are grossly inadequate even for the inspection of formal units that only employ about 10% of India’s total workforce (around 26 million), let alone the millions who work in the informal sector with absolutely no safeguards
NBA press release, 30 September 2006
The governments of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat as well as the Union of India always made propaganda of the rehabilitation policy of the Sardar Sarovar Project Affected People as that of being an ideal policy. The Narmada Bachao Andolan pointed out the inadequacies apart from the lack of implementation, which proved the government affidavits before the Supreme Court, and compliance reports of various agencies to be false. Read more »
From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 7, Issue 41, Dated October 16, 2010
SP general secretary Mohan Singh in an interview with KUNAL MAJUMDER says that Mulayam Singh Yadav’s comments reflect Muslim concerns. Read more »
From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 7, Issue 41, Dated October 16, 2010
CPM Politburo member Sitaram Yechury in an interview with TUSHA MITTAL says that the starting point for any discussion on Kashmir should be its pre-1953 status Read more »
From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 7, Issue 41, Dated October 16, 2010
The Ayodhya verdict has brought peace. But sections of the BJP want to use it as their ticket back. The RSS and the VHP don’t want any of it. SOPAN JOSHI reports Read more »
By Medha Patkar, Apr 01 , 2006, tehelka
If the Sardar Sarovar Dam’s height is increased, a clandestine move violating Supreme Court guidelines, 35,000 homeless families in the submergence zone will be exiled from their habitat, writes Medha Patkarin a letter to Water Resources Minister Saif-ud-din Soz
Author(s): Latha Jishnu, Ravleen Kaur, Aparna Pallavi, Ashutosh Mishra, Kumar Sambhav
Down to earth, Issue: Oct 15, 2010
Reaching food to people who need it the most has remained one of the most stubborn problems in India. The public distribution system (PDS) is in a shambles in most parts of the country with the poor unable to get their quota of foodgrains despite the biggest build-up of government stocks in recent times. A chunk of the grain mountain is rotting for want of storage space and effective mechanism for releasing adequate stocks in times of high food inflation. Read more »
Down to earth Oct 15, 2010
Today, Chhattisgarh buys most of its food requirement from local farmers. Using the minimum support price scheme of the Centre, it procures three million tonnes of paddy in the kharif season, benefitting about one million farmer families of the impoverished state. Part of this procurement is given to the Central pool.