LAW FOR ALL-M.MURALI MOHAN: Building Labour problems – contempt of court =most...

LAW FOR ALL-M.MURALI MOHAN: Building Labour problems – contempt of court =most...: IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION INTERLOCUTORY APPLICATION NO.6 ...

SURVIVAL OF MIGRANT LABOUR IN NOIDA

Khora – A semi- Urban slum of Ghaziabad- in front of sector – 58 to 62 NOIDA. The land was taken by NOIDA Authority to develop Sector-62, Institutional Area, but due to agitation 2 decade back by living  rural populace not to be the part of NOIDA it was decided by than CM – Mr Narayan Dutt Tiwari not to hand over the land to NOIDA Authority and making them free to live sale or purchase land. In the Last 2 Decade the cost of the Land had shoot up like anything and Old Proprietor become big, running rental houses, shops, Malls with semi urban-rural touch and still heaven for low income people TO find place to live due to low living , connectivity , beside NOIDA and vicinity to Industrial houses to work . This is New home for Migrant populace a home for unskilled and semi skilled and skilled Migrant workers    – This is New Khora – Live and Vibrant – irrespective of All hardship, Water, Electricity, Health their spirit is alive with a hope for better live for self and dependents at their home town.

Every Day is a New Day for Khora Migrant Habitat, New challenges and same hope to earn.

 

Its 8+ morning, Sector-57/ 58 and the adjoining Khora is full of office goers. Most of the man/women are from low income strata and on contractual basis working on Rs 5000/- to 7000/- per month. Traffic is  moving slow hardly to walk. Labour chowk is nearby 300-400 metre away; thousands of labors were standing in the search of work and waiting for the right employer. It’s really tough to see the labors narrowing down to any of the vehicle coming close to them for want of labors. The whole situation and agony surprised me. 

The crowd was palpable and every passing moment gets one of two employer for either size of demand and the some are feeling relaxed after finding the Job. Every type of employer were there , Most of the Labors are still loitering for the want of work. Slowly more are engaged through contractors. Labors have their own reservation and bargaining on place, type, work and wages. Nobody wants to go below than Rs 300/- for simple work. High rise building, tough job are second thought. Between these whole exercises, i found that most of them are from Hindi belt from Bihar, Eastern UP and M.P and some from western UP and without any social security cover. They are under great threat due to uncover risk and getting work on every next day is most challenging part to address 

Livelihood with social security is always the first priority for Purvanchal Vikas Foundation (PVF) for educated Youth, skilled, semi skilled and unskilled human resource.  This can happen either through direct linking or through getting them trained at vocational/skill centre.

Purvanchal Vikas Foundation has decided to address the above issue synergizing with corporate , Industrial and individual houses for their requirement so that they have enough opportunity through the year for their livelihood covering social security. The Next step will be Domestic workers , Auto & Rickshaw pullers, subji wala and roadside eatery pheriwala’s.

Migration from Government Primary School

It is a lesson in misplaced enthusiasm. While the Centre has been busy tom-tomming its efforts to send more children to school, enrolment in primary classes across the country has, in actuality, dropped since 2007. Between 2008-09 and 2009-10, enrolment in classes I to IV in Indian schools dropped by over 2.6 million.

Nearly two years after the Right to Education (RTE) Act was introduced with the promise of providing free and compulsory education to all primary school children, the learning outcome in the country has actually deteriorated in terms of quality.
In yet another wake-up call for policymakers, the 2011 Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) compiled by Pratham, an education non-profit, says that less than one in two class V students are able to read class II level texts. While the proportion was 48.2% in 2011, it was 53.7% in 2010, when RTE was enforced. Similarly, only 29.9% of class III students were able to handle a two-digit subtraction in 2011; the proportion was 36.3% a year earlier.
The report, released on Monday, is the third in three months to highlight the lack of quality education in India, posing the risk of eroding the long-term competitiveness of Asia’s third largest economy.
First, the Quality Education Survey (QES) by Wipro Ltd and Educational Initiatives?, an education assessment organization, found high-end schools in metros lacked quality parameters and largely depended on rote learning.
Then, a study by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), whose findings were first reported by Mint on 20 December, found that out of 74 countries, Indian school students at the higher secondary level ranked almost at the bottom, with only Kyrgyzstan faring worse than India.
The PISA study, coordinated by Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, mapped education standards in Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, two states which rank highly in human development indices.
The Pratham report, which surveyed some 650,000 primary school students across rural India, found that although enrolment had gone up significantly to 97%, dependence on private schools and private tutors had increased.
At the national level, private school enrolment rose from 18.7% in 2006 to 25.6% in 2011. Shockingly, in Kerala and Manipur, private school enrolment was in excess of 60%, a probable indication that government schools had failed to provide access to education of quality.
In rural Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, the private enrolment ratio was in the range of 30-60%. Between 20% and 25% of all children attended paid tuition classes outside school.
“The study indicates that perhaps RTE has (had) a flat impact,” said Madhav Chavan, one of the founders and the chief executive of Pratham. “If 25% of students are in private schools and a similar number are taking private tuition, then it can be said that at least 50% of the students are not learning at government schools. It is financially taxing on parents.”
While enrolment has gone up, the attendance level has fallen. At the all-India level, children’s attendance dropped from 73.4% in 2007 to 70.9% in 2011 in rural primary schools. In the case of Bihar, the decline was 9%, and in Uttar Pradesh, 7%.
After the metros and high-performing states, the current ASER report tells the plight of rural schools in some 558 districts of the total 634-odd districts in the country.
What the ASER, PISA and QES reports do is paint a complete picture of education in a country that has been betting big on human capital and aspiring to become a knowledge hub for the world.
The RTE came into force on 1 April 2010, and the government committed a sum of Rs.2.31 trillion for the implementation of the Act over a period of five years. The budget is to be shared between the Union and state governments in a 65:35 ratio.
In other words, governments had a mandate to spend some Rs.46,000 crore yearly until 2015 for improving the primary school system in the country. The central government had given three years to states to put the system in place.
Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal?, who released the report in New Delhi, said that it was a “little unfair to look at the outcome of RTE” so soon after its introduction.
“In five to seven years, it will show the impact and we will see improvement,” he said, while conceding that “the state governments have to be far more pro-active”.
Sibal, who is largely credited with putting the RTE in place, said he wants to introduce a quality assessment test like the Graduate Records Examination (GRE) or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) for students after class XII, but the states were reluctant.