Daksha Parmar

Do Longer Working Hours Lead to Increased Productivity? The extension of statutory working-hour limits has emerged as a pro-business instrument, promoted by the union government as part of the ease of doing business agenda. While such labour law reforms appear to have supported manufacturing performance in select capital-intensive industries, they have shifted the social costs of adjustment onto workers while increasing employer profits.

Do Longer Working Hours Lead to Increased Productivity? The extension of statutory working-hour limits has emerged as a pro-business instrument, promoted by the union government as part of the ease of doing business agenda. While such labour law reforms appear to have supported manufacturing performance in select capital-intensive industries, they have shifted the social costs of adjustment onto workers while increasing employer profits.

Community Kitchens in the Abandoned Tea Plantations of North Bengal State Action against Hunger and Inequality, a poverty-alleviation programme of the Government of West Bengal, was extended to the abandoned tea plantations in the Dooars region, where the tea plantation communities, the majority of whom are tribals, were facing extreme levels of hunger and starvation.