Bihar

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi was delivering an election speech in Madhubani, Bihar on April 24 (just two days after a terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir, when the entire nation was in mourning) and shedding crocodile tears, ASHA workers and facilitators in the state were expressing their anger on the streets of Bihar. ASHA workers in the state have been struggling for the past six months to receive their rightful remuneration.

The 23rd State Conference of Bihar State Non-Gazetted Employees Federation (Gope) representing Bihar Government employees and contractual-outsourced employees working in Government departments was held with great enthusiasm on 10–12 April 2025 at Town Hall, Buxar. The conference venue was dedicated to the militant comrade Krishna Prasad of Buxar District Federation, the Hall to the former State Secretary of the Federation, comrade Ramsevak Singh and the conference stage to the former District Secretary of Buxar, comrade Mohammad Kalam.

Rambali Prasad

The National Rural Livelihood Promotion Mission (NRLM) is a program run by the Ministry of Rural Development. The State Rural Livelihood Promotion Mission (SRLM) is run in each state under the central scheme of NRLM. In Bihar, it is commonly referred as Jeevika and functions under the control of the government’s Rural Development Department. The scheme is run with the declared purpose of creating self-employment opportunities for the unemployed rural women in India.

LABOUR SNIPPETS – APRIL 2024

- Lekha

Almond Workers Protest in Karawal Nagar, Delhi

Workers’ Convention

Resolves to Vote Out the BJP!

Advisory for Employers to

Promote Women Workforce Participation:

No Jobs / Poor Jobs: 
The ILO Report on Education and Employment
A Worrying Picture 

- Akash Bhattacharya 

14th April 2024

133rd Birth Anniversary of Babasaheb Ambedkar

Bihar State Convention of Municipal Sanitation Workers

- Ranvijay

Bihar State level convention of municipal sanitation workers was held on 10 September 2021 at Patna under the banner of “Bihar Rajya Sthaniya Nikay Karamchari Mahasangh” (Bihar State Local Bodies Employees Federation) affiliated to AICCTU on the topic, "Present Situation and the Role of Municipal Workers". The convention began with paying homage to those who died due to Covid, different industrial accidents and natural disasters.

Almost one crore scheme workers all over the country shoulder the burden of implementing several important public schemes of the central government on health and education. They include ASHA workers (working under National Rural Health Mission program), Anganvadi workers (working under ICDS program) and MDM workers (working under Mid Day Meal scheme for school children). Almost 95% of the scheme workers in the country are women. These scheme workers are the backbone in ensuring basic health and nutrition to vast majority of the country’s population.