Labouring in an oven

Labourers, semi-skilled workers and street vendors are struggling to work and earn in the burning furnace of Delhi

Behind a majestic fort, lives mired in poverty

The ubiquitous cardboard boxes in which goods are despatched by manufacturers to retailers and individual customers are retrieved for recycling by an army of migrants. But in this unorganised sector, the pickings are meagre and health hazards abound

4 labourers buried under rubble as wall collapses in Noida’s Jal Vayu Vihar

Noida Authority CEO Ritu Maheshwari has ordered a joint investigation by the police, district administration and the Noida Authority

3 children among 9 killed after jeep collides head-on with a truck in Karnataka; 15 injured

All of them were daily wage workers, labourers going towards Bengaluru. The injured have been shifted to hospital for treatment.

When labourers go unregistered, so do their problems   

Ad hoc payments in case of injuries and deaths, dangerous working conditions and difficulties in getting registered are just some of the problems plaguing Delhi’s labour force   In June, 2021 three construction workers Basant, Mangal Prasad Singh and Panna Lal Yadav were killed in Delhi Development Authority (DDA)’s under-construction housing society situated in Dwarka’s Sector […]

A year after lockdown, labourers’ misery refuse to fade

With increasing Covid cases in the capital city, as well as in other states, labourers are yet again facing the horrors of last year. Will lack of means to survive force them to go back to their hometown, again? It’s an usual Saturday afternoon of March in the capital city. Pradeep, Mukesh and Raju are […]