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Is lockdown 2.0 locking the future of migrant labourers?
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 17 (ANI): Thousands of migrant workers and daily wage labourers stranded away from their homes and families in cities like Delhi amid lockdown are spending their time sleeping in parks and lining up for food at relief camps and government schools.
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Centre should soon make policy to handle coronavirus situation: Sonia Gand
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 11 (ANI): Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said that the central government should soon form a policy to handle the situation arising out of the coronavirus crisis that has particularly affected the poor, farmers and daily wage workers in the country.
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Coronavirus: Labourers' exodus hit medicine supply chain in Delhi
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 11 (ANI): As scores of daily wage workers have moved back to their hometowns due to the spread of coronavirus, the impact of migration can be seen affecting the medicine distribution chain in the capital.
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AIPL aids daily wage workers and stray dogs in their fight against COVID-1
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Gurugram (Haryana) [India] April 8 (ANI/NewsVoir): Amidst these testing times, as the world grapples with the sufferings caused by the pandemic COVID-19, organizations like Advance India Project Limited (AIPL) are showing a ray of hope to the needy, crushed under the burden of the current cr
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Ekta Kapoor gives up one year's salary to help daily wage workers amid loc
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 3 (ANI): Producer Ekta Kapoor on Friday announced to help the daily wage workers affected by the countrywide lockdown amid coronavirus outbreak by donating her salary of a year, amounting to Rs 2.5 crores.
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Pernod Ricard India Foundation and Akshay Patra, feeding the daily wage wo
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI /BusinessWire India): In view of major economic activities shutting down in the country as part of the nationwide lockdown announced on March 23 to combat Covid-19, informal sector workforce including a large section of migrant labour workers and daily wagers
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Film federations join hands to support daily wage earners in industry amid
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 2 (ANI): Three film federations of India including Producers Guild of India (PGI), Indian Film & Television Producers Council (IFTPC) and Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) on Thursday announced that they will be supporting daily wage workers in the
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Delhi legal service authority distributes food grains to daily wage worker
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 1 (ANI): Delhi State Legal Service Authority (DSLSA) distributed food grains to migrant and daily wage workers, who are worst-hit by the imposition of a lockdown in the wake of coronavirus, in the national capital on Wednesday.
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Food being provided to over 22 lakh migrant, daily wage workers: Centre te
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 31 (ANI): The Central government on Tuesday filed a status report in the Supreme Court on a petition seeking directions to provide basic amenities like food, water and shelter to the migrant workers across the country in the wake to coronavirus lockdown.
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India should not leave Bharat behind in fight against COVID-19: Kailash Sa
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 29 (ANI): Amid the ongoing coronavirus lockdown, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi stressed on problems faced by children of daily wage workers and said 'India' should not leave 'Bharat' behind in this fight against COVID-19.
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Delhi Police distributes food, essential commodities during lockdown
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 28 (ANI): While the migrant labourers and daily wage workers are facing many problems due to paucity of jobs in the national capital owing to the nationwide lockdown, the Delhi Police has started distributing food, water, and medicines at multiple locations to them in
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'Walking for three days and yet miles to go before we can reach home'
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Ghaziabad/Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Several daily wage workers and migrant labourers who had once left their homes and moved to the national capital in search of work have been taking the arduous trek back to their villages since the 21 days countrywide lockdown was anno
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