A WORKER’S - AGENDA FOR JUST FUTURES

Beyond the scheme-based commitments which some state governments and the central government have given in the form of urban employment schemes or the rural employment guarantee act << 2 >> A Workers’ Agenda for Just Futures for 100 days of work, there needs to be a guarantee of full and dignified work for all people in India. [...] This formula should take into account the complexity and intensity of the work, the skill level required, and the average time taken to complete a piece of work. [...] As a result of the diversities << 25 >> A Worker’s Agenda for Just Futures of India’s working people, there is a need to examine the precarities and challenges specific occupational groups and sections face to get a better sense of the tailor-made agenda for just futures each occupation or trade needs. [...] Keeping in mind the alternative which is increasing corporatizing of agriculture, and industrial scale agriculture, collective farming and the wider gains of solidarity economies, and with the active involvement of women agricultural workers and small and marginal farmers the spread of feminist values, the wider social gains of such initiatives need to be underscored and celebrated. [...] Fix Responsibility of Officers Government officials and elected representatives responsible for implementation and monitoring of MGNREGA work should be penalized << 36 >> A Workers’ Agenda for Just Futures for non-compliance and delayed implementation of provisions as given in the act and rules.