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India’s informal waste workers are climate warriors -- without rights, social protection, or fair pay

September 10, 2025 11:43 am

They have built a decentralised, low-cost circular economy but face displacement, stigma, and policy neglect. Recognising waste pickers is an economic, environmental, and ethical necessity

How formal staffing can drive India’s job quality and economic growth

June 17, 2025 1:16 pm

The future of the workforce in India lies in the formalisation of employment and skill-linked employment

‘Even if we faint from the heat, they make us work’: How Delhi’s informal workforce bears brunt of climate crisis

May 01, 2025 9:16 pm

The report finds that workers are adapting their routines to survive extreme weather, but often at a high personal cost.

After three shocks, 16.45 lakh jobs lost in informal sector over 7 yrs

After three shocks, 16.45 lakh jobs lost in informal sector over 7 years

July 12, 2024 11:50 am

The data available for the first time since 2015-16, provides an understanding of the impact of the three major exogenous shocks viz., demonetisation, rollout of the Goods and Service Tax, and the Covid-19 pandemic, on the growth of unincorporated enterprises.

Policymakers must break India’s cycle of poverty

December 01, 2021 7:48 am

🔴 Feroze Varun Gandhi writes: They should turn away from supply-side measures and pursue demand-side policies, help the common man.

In three years, informal economy down to 15-20% from 52%, says SBI report

November 01, 2021 8:00 am

At least Rs 13 lakh crore has come into the formal economy through various channels over the last few years, including the recent scheme on the e-Shram portal, according to SBI Ecowrap.

Field work for survey on jobs in informal sector launched

October 04, 2021 4:42 am

It comes after the Labour Ministry had last week unveiled results of the revamped Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) for April-June, which captured the employment situation for organised sector and establishments having more than 10 workers.

What India's informal sector needs right now

August 21, 2021 7:56 am

Pranjul Bhandari writes: It is critical to provide protection to workers via social welfare schemes.

World Bank approves $500 million loan to support India's informal working class amid pandemic

June 30, 2021 6:02 pm

Of the USD 500 million commitment, USD 112.50 million will be financed by its concessionary lending arm International Development Association and USD 387.50 million will be a loan from International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).

PM’s pension scheme: Two months into launch, workers not keen, call it poll gimmick

May 01, 2019 11:19 am

Makhan Lal, a construction worker who is on the verge of quitting work because of a dislocated shoulder, says: “I haven’t heard of Modi’s pension scheme or Rahul Gandhi’s NYAY... what I know is that we will remain poor, this basti will continue to have open sewage and during rains our houses will be under sewer water.”