‘INCOME OPPORTUNITIES AT HOME CAN PREVENT DISTRESS MIGRATION’

-
the pioneer

STATE EDITION

‘INCOME OPPORTUNITIES AT HOME CAN PREVENT DISTRESS MIGRATION’

Thursday, 28 November 2013 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA | in Bhubaneswar

 About 60,000 poor people of Nuapada district, constituting about 10 per cent of its total population, are migrant labourers.
The hapless lot resorts to distress migration as a coping mechanism to escape poverty and marginalisation at home. The migrants neither have any objection to the unfavourable terms of engagement of the employer, nor can challenge the living conditions in the workplace. Gradually, increasing migration in the district represents many social and economic processes, including a degree of social and political mobilisation of the poor, who want to escape from the cycle of poverty and inhumanisation. But, migration does not provide them any respite from the vicious cycle of poverty.
These were the observations made by the participants of a consultation on livelihood planning for the migrant and bonded labourers of Nuapada district, organised by the Press Club here. The club had organised the meeting to discuss about the piloting of the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) in Nuapada district. “This piloting will help the NRLM to scale up the implementation in other districts in an intensive way,” hoped Sajjad Hassan, national advisor to the Commissioners appointed by the Supreme Court to look after the food right issues in the country.
Hassan stressed on creation of successful livelihood opportunities at source. “It requires a range of policies, standards, practices and capacities, working both at source as well as at destination,” he said further. Perhaps a useful attempt might be to make distress migration less distressful by strengthening both services and opportunities for families at home, and support for migrants at destination, working through relevant legislations like Inter-state Migrant Labour Act, he opined.
The participants felt that there is a need to work with civil society groups and labour associations to strengthen the NRLM. Further, the NRLM has to work in convergence with public wage and income generating programmes, most famously NREGS and various other schemes, which have the potential to change the calculus of the poor, the participants said.
“The consultation was an attempt to find ways for the NRLM piloting in the district, and we hope a combined effort of the Government, CSO, CBOs and the migrants and most importantly ‘media’ will take it a long way,” said Club secretary Tapan Das.
The consultation was coordinated by Club president Ajit Panda. Other participants were the PRI representatives of Birighat and Badi Gram Panchayats, State Advisor to Supreme Court Commissioners Rajkishor Mishra, advocate Chittaranjan Sing Deo, Dr Ajit Panda of Ayauskam and Ramachandra Mishra. The Addl. Project Director (APD) scheme, APD, Credit/bonded labour; and the coordinator MGNREGS of the DRDA, Nuapada along with the head of Odisha Livelihood Mission (OLM) Nirodh Jena also attended consultation. The State team members of OLM Babita Tripathy, Sudhira Mishra and Saranya Naik of Action Aid also participated.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

NBWS ISSUED AGAINST 3 N’PADA FOREST STAFF

-
NBWS ISSUED AGAINST 3 N’PADA FOREST STAFF Sunday, 10 May 2015 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA | in  Bhubaneswar The Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Khariar issued non-bailable warrants (NBWs) against three officials of Forest (Territorial) Division of Khariar. The NBWs were issued against DFO Sarat Chandra Panda, ACF Nityanand Naik and Forester Surendra Barik for deliberately defying summons of the JMFC for appearance in the court. The police are yet to arrest the officials, as they are absconding. The incident which led to such an unprecedented situation is peculiar. The DFO had issued an order for digging of a trench on the boundary line of forest land located near the JMFC court. The work resulted in the damage of a footpath and the water supply system leading to the court premises. Expressing discontent, the advocates of Khariar Bar Association requested the Forest Department to stop the work. However, the DFO instead of listening to them, justified his work stat...
Read more

Odisha’s Nuapada a snapshot of how COVID-19 is affecting rural India

-
Image
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/health/odisha-s-nuapada-a-snapshot-of-how-covid-19-is-affecting-rural-india-76689 Odisha’s Nuapada a snapshot of how COVID-19 is affecting rural India Nuapada distrct experiences lack of oxygen, callous staff, a swelling number of infection cases and deaths and an administration in denial as COVID-19 wreaks havoc  By  Ajit Panda Published: Monday 26 April 2021  A person being tested for COVID-19 at the Khariar Road Railway Station in Odisha's Nuapada district. Photo: Twitter Handle of the Collector and District Magistrate of Nuapada The worst fears of experts regarding rural India during the first wave of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) last year are coming true. Nuapada, a district of Odisha bordering Chhattisgarh, offers a snapshot of the havoc that the pandemic is wreaking, now that it has reached these areas. Lack of oxygen, callous staff, the swelling number of infection cases and deaths and an administration in denial is ...
Read more

Dalits avenge discrimination by upper caste

-
  Dalits avenge discrimination by upper caste Sunday, 24 April 2022  |  AJIT PANDA  | NUAPADA https://www.dailypioneer.com/2022/state-editions/dalits-avenge-discrimination-by-upper-caste.html Despite strict laws and social reforms, there seems to be no end to caste discrimination. In an incident reported from Jamgaon village under the Boden police limits of Nuapada district, dalits of the village have allegedly been prevented from carrying the ceremonial vases filled with water and paddy in a Kalas Yatra held during celebration of the Ram Navami on April 10.  According to dalits, the village as a whole decided to celebrate the Ram Navami with participation of people of all communities, including dalits. All dalit families contributed financially equally as decided in a village meeting. "But when the decision about organising the Kalas Yatra was made, they said dalit women would not be allowed to carry Kalas because the water and paddy would be impure “It was qui...
Read more