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It's working India....by the workers of India....

India is booming globally, foreign investor have shown interest in Indian economy and national investors are also interested to invest outside the India. This is the decade, where the working youths are in large percentage of Indian population. Money is rolling very fast, now everything is smart......smart card to smart mobile.....economy is also rolling very smartly.

India is a big country and perhaps there are number of country within country India. Big in geography, Big in population.....big in strength,....big in thoughts.....and also big economy and one of the biggest democracy in the world. It is a big global market, big players and small players are knocking the door everyday in Indian economy. GDP of the country is also going high....it has made a jump in last decade......this is about the expenditure of individuals, it is going high and high....definitely income is also going high therefore expenditure is also going and going.....

Yes I agree if it is manufacturing, service, construction, marketing, production....every where this youth and young workers are making India......They are the pillars of rising Indian economy...sometime they are recognised and sometime not....but who bothers....Worker means worker.....making working India...making working economy....whether is rural or urban economy....whether it is metro or small city...they are everywhere....they are taking everyday challenge of life and struggle and ready always to build India.....

I am much more concern about their quality of life...perhaps we may not able to provide that environment for them...recent past there was news...workers of Tea Industry in North Bengal are going with tough time...there are news of starvation...workers are migrating outside the industry....moving from organised to unorganised...this is vital concern to rethink the policy for working forces.

In recent past there was so many good act and policy introduced by the Government of India...like Right of Children for Free and Compulsory education Act.......POCSO....prevention of child sexual abuse....Amendment on Child regulation Act....Amendment on Juvenile Justice Act.....Right to child protection act....National Health mission Scheme.....sanctions and allotment has been given under ICDS (integrated Child development Scheme) and ICPS (Integrated Child Protection Scheme). But perhaps our workers are not aware about these beautiful act, policy, schemes and provisions.

We need to see workers with their family always....if the kids of the workers are getting free and compulsory education in Government school, if their kids are getting free health services..if their kids are getting the benefits of the ICPS and ICDS....if their kids are getting the benefit of Juvenile Justice system...entire family of workers will be benefited...worker movement in India also need to look in this matter to cater the need of workers holistically...not through the single lens of workers benefit only...

It has been observed and experienced that country is facing the problem of under nutrition, child labour, child sexual abuse cases are increasing and surfaced...children are out of school, they are being drop out from school, there is unsafe migration.....children are being trafficked...who are them...they are all kids of our workers....my kids...your kids...my neighbour kids...because we are also workers....working for making india....We need to address these problem immediately. Our workers in industry...in farm land...in any places..they are not living quality life..they may ignorant of the provision but service providers need to make them oriented about their benefits.

As I understand when the questions of family comes...there should not be any politics...when the matters of children will come...there should not be any politics....when the matters of workers will come...there should not be politics...yes I am in favour of polity...means quality politics...which will benefit all individuals to go beyond of humanity...

India can only grow...when our working population would live the quality life, quality education and quality health. We need to work with all for stake holders for ensuring welfare of workers, we need to see the every domain of workers family.

“While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible!”

Article authored by

Ashim Kumar Ghosh ( a worker working for workers)

ashim57@gmail.com