If there were an area of employment relationships that is most perverse from the perspective of the emergent idea of human right in the workplace, in most probability the contract workers in the organised sector would fit the bill. The underlying political notion of universality of equality, engraved into the Indian constitution, has been progressively […]
2007
Survey of Contract Labour in Karnataka
I Survey of Contract Labour in Karnataka A survey of employment and conditions of life of contract labour in Karnataka was undertaken as part of the comprehensive study on contract labour in the state. The purpose of the study was to map the occupational pattern of contract labour in the state; look at the conditions […]
NTUI Handbill on Industrialisation, Land Acquisition and Displacement
Alibag, Kalinganagar, Kashipur, Polavaram, Nandigram, Singur, … have all been in the news in recent times for horrendous human rights violations by state forces. As a result state governments have ended up denying people their democratic rights which governments are meant to protect. The struggle at each of these sites has highlighted the strong opposition […]
Protest Nandigram – No to State Repression of Dissent
On 14th March 2007, Nandigram witnessed a massacre. A very large police force completely cordoned off the area and blocked all entry and exit points from the villages, and proceeded to violently evict the people. The result was indiscriminate killings, and grievous injury to a large number of local people. We strongly condemn the […]