26/05/2020 - Governance

KEY POINTS

·         India’s decennial census tracks international emigrants, intra-district, intra-state and inter-state migrants. The estimate for total domestic migrants from the 2011 census extrapolated to now is about 500 million people.

·         While there is a logistics crisis, the country needs policy thinking on both inter-state and intra-state labour migrants. This is a job that requires collaboration between the Centre and the states, as well as between states.

·         Data: A non-political agency reporting to Parliament should be created to track all labour-related data in India with a focus on migrants. It has become clear in recent months that India’s data collection with respect to its labour market is abysmal.

·         Technology for services: The most effective way to deliver services would be to use the Aadhaar-based technology stack, after obtaining legislative sanction for this specific purpose. Since the stack stays off individual bio-metric identification, it will have to be adapted to add household clusters.

·         Employment structure: Employers and governments should, thus, focus on creating the enabling urban infrastructure—affordable flexible rental housing, clean hygienic communities, portable affordable healthcare access and technology stack for delivery of in-kind and cash transfers—rather than on formalizing contracts between employers and migrant workers.

Criticisms of the services

·         There is some section of the population who didn’t receive the Aadhar card and still unknown about it.

·         Frequent corrections, faults in biometrics, inefficient machines etc, hampered the efficiency of AAdhar.

·         Lack of centralized database collection from the government agencies.

·         Presence of more informal workers, lacking social security to employees.

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