Migration, Gender, and Urban Inequality
Gender studies and women's studies, as a discipline, have made efforts as a theoretical and conceptual rethinking of the linear rlationship between migraton, urbanisation and development.
Category Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being
Empowering Single Women: Paving the Path to Equitable Futures in India
On the fifth of August 2022, Ms Supriya Sule, Member of Parliament India of the 17th Lok Sabha, introduced a private members bill titled “The Protection of Rights of Widows and Single Women and Abolishment of Widowhood Practices Bill, 2022”. The Statement of Objects and Reasons of the Bill held that an “ecosystem of neglect leads to millions of widows and single women being pushed into poverty, unable to guarantee a healthy life for themselves and their dependent children” and thus sought to safeguard the rights of widows and single women and to work towards a more equitable, accepting, and progressive society for them.
The Collective Responsibility: Empowering Bystanders with Social Consciousness
Moral On October 26th, videos of a 12-year-old girl injured and pleading for help from a group of bystanders surfaced from Kannuaj, Uttar Pradesh. People are casually recording videos on their mobile phones as the girl asks for help. But, unfortunately, none of them helps, offers first aid or takes the survivor for treatment until a policeman carries her to a hospital.
Unfortunately, this is not the first among many such gruesome incidents of voyeurism in India. In 2012, a 20-year-old girl was molested outside a bar in Guwahati for a full 30 minutes without receiving any help. After Nirbhaya was gang-raped and left on the road to die in 2012, a significant amount of time passed before a passerby called the police. Nearly a decade later, violent sexual crimes continue to plague our nation, with people just looking on. In 2017, a woman was raped in broad daylight in Vishakhapatnam as bystanders stood and recorded videos of the act. Similarly, in 2018, a minor girl was molested in broad daylight by seven men in Jehanabad, Bihar. None of the witnesses intervened to save the girl.
Streamlining Labour Regulations: Assessing the Impacts of India’s Code on Wages Act
The New Wage Code or The Code on Wages was introduced in Lok Sabha by the Ministry of Labour and Employment as one of the four labour codes which are intended to subsume the multitude of pre-existing Labor laws. In 2002, The Second National Commission of Labour submitted its report in which it talked about the multiplicity of labour laws in India and recommended the codification of multiple central level labour laws in 4 to 5 groups.
Beyond Numbers: Addressing the Realities of Poverty
The interim Union budget for 2024-25 once again spoke of India’s reported dramatic reduction in ‘multidimensional poverty’. This reiterates earlier claims -- that 248.2 million Indians have escaped multidimensional poverty in the last nine years, including some 60 million people in UP, 38 million in Bihar and 23 million in Madhya Pradesh.
Employment, Livelihoods & Interim Union Budget 2024-25
The IMPRI Center for Work and Welfare (CWW), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, hosted an interactive panel discussion on the topic “Employment, Livelihoods & Interim Budget 2024-25” on 3 February 2024, under the IMPRI 4th Annual Series of Thematic Deliberations and Analysis of Union Budget 2023-24, as part of IMPRI #WebPolicyTalk.
Trade Unions: Time for Businesses to Recognize the Economic Win
There are two aspects of unions and their work that employers in India would do well to focus on. Their role in bridging the wide gap between enterprise-level rationality and economy-wide rationality. On completing Indian society's stunted modernization, which depresses the quality of workforce.