Mukta Naik

The writer is with the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

As the pandemic’s second wave rages, migrants trudge home again

Sat, May 01, 2021

A whole year of uncertainty and deprivation, of constantly adapting to shocks and new realities, has left India’s informal workforce in an economically and emotionally brittle condition

Migrant workers distrust a state that does not take them into account

Tue, Mar 31, 2020

Invisible, largely, in the Census and in national sample surveys — and consequently to administrators — field studies have consistently claimed short-term labour mobility in India was significant.