Scheme Workers

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.

CPI-ML Liberation MPs have continued to ask questions in the Parliament in the best interests of the working classes. In the ongoing Parliamentary session, a question was put to the Ministry of Labour by Com. Rajaram Singh regarding the Ayushman Bharat Scheme for Gig Workers. The question focused on census of gig workers, budgetary allocation, social security, etc. The response of the Government of India is given below. 

The third Assam State Conference of AICCTU was held on 5 Feb 2025 with Comrade Basudev Bose the Central Observer. The Conference began with flag hoisting by Com. Biren Kalita and the martyr column was garlanded by Comrade Sokila Munda, the wife of the martyr Gangaram Kohl. The delegates session was inaugurated by Comrade Bibek Das, the state secretary of CPIML Liberation. He suggested to focus the work on organizing the emerging, dynamic new sections of the working class.

Politically, 2024 saw the BJP government face a significant setback in the national elections. At the same time, the year saw a number of workers’ struggles from various sectors, protesting the anti-worker policies of not only the BJP as prime perpetrator, but also various other oppositional governments and private establishments who share the same crony corporate capitalist mores.

Maitreyi Krishnan

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