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COVID-19 : Govt extends life insurance cover to over 1 lakh FCI employees
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): Food and Consumer Affairs Minister, Ram Vilas Paswan on Friday announced that more than one lakh Food Corporation of India (FCI) employees, including 80 thousand workers, have been given life insurance cover for a period of 6 months starting March 24, in th
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Adhir Chowdhury urges PM Modi to help migrant labourers reach their homes
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to arrange for ferrying migrant labourers to their home or at the nearest point from where their respective states would assure them a safe return
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Farmers in MP unable to harvest crops due to labour shortage
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Chhatarpur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], April 9 (ANI): Several farmers in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district are incurring losses as they are unable to harvest their crops due to shortage of labourers amid the nation-wide COVID-19 lockdown.
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Lockdown : Non-availability of labour hits crop harvesting in Haryana's Ro
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Rohtak (Haryana) [India], April 9 (ANI): Amid the lockdown in the country to prevent the spread of coronavirus, farmers here are facing trouble in the harvest season due to non-availability of labour.
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Over 84,000 workers received relief amid COVID-19 in Chhattisgarh, says st
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], April 9 (ANI): Over 84,000 labourers from Chhattisgarh and outside the state have received relief, including the facility of salary advance, food, accommodation and medical treatment, under the initiative launched on the directions of state Chief Minister Bhupe
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BSF distributes ration to daily wage labourers in J-K's Pulwama amid lockd
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Pulwama (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], April 8 (ANI): Continuing its efforts to help the needy during the nationwide lockdown, the Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday distributed ration and other essential items among daily wage labourers in Jammu and Kashmir's Pampore in the Pulwama dist
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400 million Indian workers may sink into poverty due to COVID-19: ILO
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Apr 8 (ANI): With 90 per cent of people working in India's informal economy, about 400 million workers are at risk of falling deeper into poverty during the coronavirus crisis, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said.
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Karnataka CM directs authorities to provide aid to migrant labourer who di
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 8 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Tuesday condoled the death of a woman labourer who walked roughly over 200 kilometres from Bengaluru to get back to her home in Raichur district. He also directed authorities to provide relief to the
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YSRCP govt should give Rs 5,000 aid to poor, demands TDP
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], April 7 (ANI): Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Tuesday demanded that the YSRCP government in the state should give Rs 5,000 as aid to every poor family in the state even as the lockdown imposed due to COVID-19 continues in the country.
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Workers of private set-ups in UP should get March salary by April 7: Labou
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 6 (ANI): The state's Labour Department in consultation with the District Magistrate of Lucknow has directed that workers/employees engaged in shops/commercial institutions/factories/private enterprises should get their salary for March by April 7.
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Coronavirus: Sindh, PoK governments abandon Kashmiri migrant workers
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Apr 6 (ANI): Thousands of migrant workers from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) including daily wagers, factory workers and labourers are stuck in the Karachi city of Pakistan's Sindh province due to Coronavirus lock-down.
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WTC Chandigarh ensures safety and security of its workers
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab)[India], Apr 6 (ANI/NewsVoir): The COVID-19 pandemic followed by lockdown in the country has left many migrants labourers with no food and shelter.
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