Assessing the portability of social protection and services for children affected by migration

We are immensely grateful to the support of the Women and Child Development Department of the Government of Odisha and the Department of Labour of the Government of Chhattisgarh, for facilitating appointments with state government officials. [...] 75 Assessing the portability of social protection and welfare services for children affected by migration: 9 A study across five Indian states Executive summary The 2020 migrant crisis in the wake of the as a function of lack of skills, and the COVID-19 national lockdown highlighted significant role of identity factors in shaping the urgent need to incorporate migrants migration pathways are less. [...] Districts in Maharashtra with interstate in-migrant children industry is mostly dependent on Gujarati labour.3 There are two important streams of intrastate migration in the state: the seasonal unskilled family-based migration of tribal labour from the eastern belt to major cities in the state to work in the brick-kiln and construction sectors; and the intrastate migration from the salt pan areas. [...] the Government of Odisha in partnership with the Government of Telangana To address the lack of portability, the and CSOs to support and supply local Government of India in 2020 expedited language textbooks to migrant children the ONORC scheme, which enables in the destination state. [...] For instance, Chhattisgarh’s Food back end infrastructure of the PDS and and Nutritional Security Act, 2012 predates the seeding of Aadhaar information of the NFSA and broadens entitlement, beneficiaries in the database, and requires with explicit coverage for migrants in the an updated and uniform database across locations where they currently reside.