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Covid-19 Pandemic: Charting the Way Forward for Migrant Workers
CBGA
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government is moving towards rejuvenating the economy. The task is a formidable one as the level of unemployment continues to be as high as 21.3 per cent¹. The unlocking of the economy and the stimulus relief has done little to reduce unemployment and the loss of livelihoods as over 100 million people are out of jobs. Desperate, millions of workers, mainly migrant labourers reduced to joblessness by the lockdown had started returning to their homes and villages despite public transport having come to a virtual standstill as they could not afford the urban cost of living without earnings. The tremendous suffering and hardships that they faced during their journey back home, many on foot, reflects the chronic problem of a lack of social security nets for workers. The massive loss of livelihoods, increasing incidents of hunger and distressed demand for labour, calls for commensurate public policy actions in the form of guaranteed
July 2020
employment. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), despite its various challenges, has been a time-tested successful programme for providing a minimum of 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work in the rural areas. The demand for providing employment guarantee to both rural and urban workers has been a key point of policy discussion in the present situation. This note explores some of the options and challenges of providing employment guarantee to the workers in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. please follow mee thank you