‘Why would we come here again, but forced to go looking for a living’
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Group of migrants in Greater Noida say they were forced into bondage during pandemic
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Group of migrants in Greater Noida say they were forced into bondage during pandemic
“No one listens to the poor man,” said 16-year-old Ramkishor outside the Gautam Budhha Nagar District Magistrate’s office on Tuesday. While he said he has that figured out, he was there waiting for someone to help him and his family out of the bonded labour situation.
Ramkishor, his parents and two younger siblings, who are from Lalitpur in Uttar Pradesh, along with three other families from Sagar in Madhya Pradesh said they had been working without pay at a construction site in Aicher village in Greater Noida for the past two months.
Migrant workers vulnerable again, say activists
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April 15, 2021 23:21 IST
A year after lakhs of workers made their way back to their home States after the nationwide lockdown was announced in March 2020, their condition has not changed much.
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Migrant workers arriving from Maharashtra stand in a queue at Patna Junction April 15, 2021 to undergo a COVID-19 test. | Photo Credit: PTI
A year after lakhs of workers made their way back to their home States after the nationwide lockdown was announced in March 2020, their condition has not changed much.
With State governments announcing lockdowns and curfews in the wake of rising COVID-19 cases, migrant workers could once again be staring at loss of wages and lack of social protections, labour union leaders and activists said on Thursday.
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Tribune news service
Faridabad, April 6
Residents of the district’s Khori village staged a demonstration outside the mini-secretariat here today in protest against the anti-encroachment drive carried out by the Municipal Corporation.
They submitted a memorandum to the district authorities, demanding that they should not be evicted from the village. The protesters claimed more than 400 persons had been rendered homeless in the past six months because of the MC’s demolition drive.
Social activist Nirmal Gorana of the Bandhua Mukti Morcha claimed more than 100 houses of labourers were demolished in Khori village in September last year.
“The MC razed another 300 houses of the poor without issuing any notice. The MC demolished our houses in spite of the fact that a case related to it is pending in the High Court,” he said.