NHRC, India organises its core group meeting on Protecting Migrant Workers Rights: Shared Responsibility of Government and the Private Sector
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📌 Summary:
- National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India convened a core group meeting on protecting migrant workers' rights, framing it as a shared responsibility of Government and the private sector
- NHRC Chairperson Justice V. Ramasubramanian stressed shift from compliance-based to rights-based culture; called for systemic reforms — interstate coordination, portable social protection, stronger enforcement of labour laws — over fresh policy creation
- NHRC Member Justice (Dr.) Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi highlighted that non-payment of wages on time defeats the purpose of migration, calling for due regard and timely wages
- Secretary General Bharat Lal praised the One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) scheme; emphasised bridging the gap between laws on books and implementation on ground
- Multi-stakeholder discussion called for: uniform, timely wage payment; access to essential services — healthcare, sanitation, housing, education for children, social security; on-boarding linguistic-identity-based associations into coordination councils
- Priority sectors flagged: construction, hotels, business establishments, domestic work — where migrant exposure to abuse is highest
🎯 UPSC Relevance: GS1 — Society (Internal Migration, Urbanisation); GS2 — Governance & Welfare (labour rights, NHRC functioning, statutory implementation gap). Directly relevant to recurring Mains questions on internal-migration governance and gig/informal workers.
📝 Prelims Facts:
- NHRC Chairperson: Justice V. Ramasubramanian (former SC judge)
- NHRC Member: Justice (Dr.) Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi
- NHRC Secretary General: Shri Bharat Lal
- ONORC = One Nation One Ration Card; PDS portability scheme under National Food Security Act, 2013; nationwide rollout completed
- NHRC: statutory body under Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993; chairperson is retired CJI/SC judge
🔑 Key Term: Portable Social Protection — A framework where social-security benefits (PDS, insurance, pensions, healthcare) follow the migrant worker across state boundaries, decoupling entitlement from physical residence.
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