Despondency Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown: A Telephonic Response Study of Returned Migrant Workers in Hill Districts of Garhwal and Kumaon Regions of Uttarakhand

IMPRI Panel Discussion on Despondency Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown: A Telephonic Response Study of Returned Migrant Workers in Hill Districts of Garhwal and Kumaon Regions of Uttarakhand

Greetings from the Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI), New Delhi!
Centre for Work and Welfare at the Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI),  invite you to join us for a #WebPolicyTalk – An International Webinar and Release of Study Findings:

Despondency Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown: A Telephonic Response Study of Returned Migrant Workers in Hill Districts of Garhwal and Kumaon Regions of Uttarakhand

Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: Saturday, 20th June 2020
Time: 4:45 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.IST (GMT+5:30)
Platform: Zoom and Facebook Live

Chair:

Prof B S Butola
Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Panelists:

Prof Wendy Olsen, Professor, Manchester University

Prof Irudaya Rajan, Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Kerala

Prof Utpal K De, Professor, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong

Mr Bikash Kumar Malick, IES, Assistant Director, Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE), Government of India

Prof R B Bhagat, Professor and Head, Department of Migration and Urban Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai

Discussants:

Dr Manoj Kumar Pant, Additional Chief Executive Officer, Center for Public Policy and Good Governance, Government of Uttarakhand

Prof Bharat Singh, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Satyawati College (Evening), University of Delhi, Delhi

The presentation was given by Prof I C Awasthi, Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE); Indian Association of Social Science Institutions (IASSI); Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi; Dr Balwant Singh Mehta, Senior Fellow, IHD. The survey experiences were shared by Mr Ramesh Joshi (Survey Coordinator), Secretary, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Action & Research Society (DARS), Dehradun

Moderator:

Dr Arjun Kumar, Director, Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI), New Delhi; China India Visiting Scholars Fellow, Ashoka University

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Media Coverage:

• Despondency Amidst COVID-19: Concerns of Returnee Migrant Workers, Delhi Post News, June 23, 2020
• Lack of jobs: Uttarakhand’s 68% ‘returned migrants’ want to go back, says survey, Counterview, June 24, 2020
• Two-day webinar on reverse migration concludes, Times of India, June 25, 2020
• Despondency Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown- Uttarakhand, Doon News, June 24, 2020
• उत्तराखंड में प्रवासियों के बीच “मन की बात”: राज्य स्थापना के 20 साल बाद भी अधिकांश पहाड़ी जिले अभी भी पीछे, A Bit Far, June 24, 2020