Reportage
Goa: Migrant labourers, who arrived at the Karmali station, were sent to a football stadium
After they started receiving messages on their mobiles regarding the Shramik Special trains, they have been arriving at the station. But they are made to wait at the stadium as there are no trains
Kushal Mishra
Cyclone Amphan: Those left behind in Sundarbans have nothing to rebuild their lives with
Cyclone Amphan made landfall on May 20 and battered the islands in the Sundarbans. Gaon Connection travelled to the cyclone-affected islands. A ground report
Aritra Bhattacharya
Double the fare, delays, instances of people having to drink toilet water … it’s not a happy journey
The Shramik Special trains are running far behind their scheduled time. The migrant labourers on board these trains are not getting food or water. This is adding to their woes in this scorching heat
Mithilesh Dhar Dubey
Women undertake most of the laborious work in the fields, yet they are not called farmers
Despite the amendment in the Hindu Succession Act in 2005, whereby equal rights were awarded to daughters in their fathers’ ancestral property, women are not allowed to own agricultural land
Dilip Singh Bidawat
Jharkhand airlifts 180 more workers from Port Blair in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands
After airlifting 60 of its workers from Leh in the Ladakh Union Territory in northernmost part of the country, the very next day Jharkhand government airlifts more people from the islands union territory
Nidhi Jamwal
“I am committing suicide because of poverty and unemployment. The lockdown keeps on extending. I am not getting any job”
This suicide note was found in the pocket of a body that was found on May 29 on the railway tracks in Lakhimpur Khiri district of Uttar Pradesh. The deceased has been identified as Bhanu Prakash Gupta, who had lost his job recently
Arvind Shukla
The brassware industry of Mirzapur was in dire straits. The lockdown has dealt the final blow
Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh is known for its brass utensils. The lanes here used to be abuzz with activity during summers. Now, the lockdown has caused a livelihood crisis for its 25-30,000 workers
Mithilesh Dhar Dubey
“The locust outbreak in India may have its root in climate change”
Although desert locust attacks are common in Western Rajasthan and Gujarat during summers, for the first time, the Locust Warning Organisation has spotted them in April this year. Desert locusts are usually found in small groups, which means that the present swarm behaviour is abnormal
Seema Jawed
Augmentation canal breaches becoming a new normal in Haryana
On May 17, 2020, the residents of Ranwar village in Karnal woke up to find their village surrounded by a gushing water current, which was fast entering their homes. The cause of the flooding was a breach in the augmentation canal running close to the village
Bhim Singh Rawat
Stranded for two months in Leh, 60 migrant workers from Jharkhand, get airlifted
Jharkhand government pays and organises to airlift its workers constructing border roads in Leh; possibly the first such operation for migrant workers within the country during the lockdown