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Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

Sonal Shukla (1941-2021): A Tribute

Vibhuti Patel Sonal Shukla, a veteran feminist passed away on September 9, 2021. She was a close family friend, co-traveller in the women’s movement, a role model and a feminist icon for my daughter and thousands of young girls and…

E-Shram needs some hard work to get going

On August 26, 2021, the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MOLE) launched the E-Shram, the web portal for creating a National Database of Unorganized Workers (NDUW), which will be seeded with Aadhaar. It seeks to register an estimated 398-400 million unorganized workers and to issue an E-Shram card. However, it has come into existence more than a decade after the passage of the Unorganized Workers’ Social Security Act in 2008; and if we consider inter-State migrant workers, the portal is a little more than four decades late.

Thoughts on the International Day of Democracy

Amita Singh United Nations had declared 15th September as the International Day of Democracy way back in 2007. What made UNO declare such a day when it has itself mostly failed to abide by the concerns of democracy around the…

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