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Kerala scheme shows how to create work opportunities while caring for the environment #IndiaNEWS
Environment and employment two fronts on which India has been besieged in recent years. Unemployment since 2011 has worsened in the aftermath of the Covid-19 lockdowns. About 100 million workers lost their jobs with women and the youth being more adversely impacted.Cities were the epicentre of this crisis of job loss. Cities have also been besieged on another front as they struggle with environmental issues of water, solid waste management, flooding, air pollution – a seemingly endless list of woes compounded by the incidence of extreme weather events.To address unemployment, there have been demands for a central urban employment guarantee scheme similar to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act targeted at villages.Kerala was the frontrunner having initiated the Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme in 2010. Madhya Pradesh in 2019, and Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Odisha in 2020 followed with schemes for providing employment to different categories of the urban poor.Of these, the Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme provides 100 days of employment to urban poor, even to senior citizens, and has special provisions to employ women. But the Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme was especially interesting owing to its focus on public work with a focus on the environment.We were curious to know the perspective of stakeholders – mainly job seekers, officials,...Read more

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