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Politically speaking, West Bengal contains multiple Bengals in itself. But the only Bengal within West Bengal that I am going to write about here is originally Hindi-speaking. This Hindi-speaking West Bengal arose through immigrants from northern India. Migration from North India to Bengal started a long time ago. During colonial …

CALCUTTA : This year Durga has returned with her young son, with her daughters Lakshmi and Saraswati in tow, walking miles from a big city to her hometown in West Bengal. This time, the Kolkata-based Behala Barisha Club has described the plight of migrant workers during the COVID-induced shutdown as …

With migrant workers facing immense difficulties due to the coronavirus pandemic, organizers of Durga Puja in a Kolkata neighborhood have decided to pay tribute not to Goddess Durga but to migrant workers who have been struggling to survive the pandemic. The Barisha Club Durga Puja committee in Behala, Kolkata has …

With just one month left until the plan is finalized, the Narendra Modi government has so far spent only 56% of the funds on a special initiative to provide employment for migrant workers who returned home during the coronavirus disease pandemic ( Covid-19) and the lockdown was enforced to prevent …

New Delhi: Interstate migrants received special attention in the Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code introduced by the government in Lok Sabha on Saturday. From setting a salary threshold, which allows them to register in an online database, from the provision of an annual “travel allowance” to offering the option …

Highlight The center says there was “no mechanism” to collect such data in the districts The Ministry of Labor published a note clarifying the welfare measures There has been a huge backlash over the response to migrant deaths New Delhi: Faced with attacks by the opposition for saying that “there …

Lakhs of migrant workers were left stranded, out of work when the shutdown began on March 25. New Delhi: There is no data on migrant deaths, so the “question does not arise” from compensation, the Union Labor Ministry said in parliament on Monday when asked whether the families of those …

The exodus of workers began within days of the prime minister announcing a nationwide shutdown in March. (Proceedings) New Delhi: There is no data on migrant deaths, so the “question does not arise” from compensation, the Union Labor Ministry said in parliament on Monday when asked whether the families of …

Vikram Rajput, a native of Mawai village in Jhansi, is ready to go back to work. He is happy because he had never imagined that it would be possible to get his job back within five months of its loss during the Covid-19 crash. Not only is he getting his …

[ad_1] “Kahan chale gaye the?”, said the Head of Bihar Minister Nitish Kumar during his daily life, video conference with workers in one of the quarantine facilities in Muzaffarpur on Saturday. A welcome declaration of affection at a time when the CM has come under the radar for allegedly not …