Why mechanics, garages worry about #ElectricVehicle revolution: Only 2% of India’s vehicles are EVs, but sales rose 155% in 2022-23. @kavithawrites on need to re-skill large workforce to ensure #JustTransition
“Every third vehicle that I see is an #ElectricVehicle. It will have an impact on small informal workers like mechanics, spare parts dealers: Y Vamshi Krishna, owner of service centre in #Hyderabad. Millions wary of #electricMobility revolution’s impact on #labour. 2/4
“I am scared…We may lose our jobs as we don’t have the necessary skills.” T Sai Kumar, a technician at a car dealership in #Hyderabad. Major auto companies are currently looking at what training workers need amid transition to #ElectricVehicles. 3/4
“We hope employers retain employees and train them for future needs. As of now there is no clarity about this.” Raj Kumar Singh, a working committee member of Left-affiliated trade union on #JustTransitions in #ElectricMobility. 4/4
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“Cut down the forest, dry up the rivers, finish them off”
Pramot Singh of extremist Meitei Leepun in #Manipur on 28 April. @KimiColney on how state govt ignored/aided tensions between tribal Kukis & majority Meitei, spiralling into anarchy
Terrified 11-yr-old to his mother Mangalleima, a Meitei from Australia, trapped in their home village in Churachandpur, #Manipur, as it was attacked by Kukis on 3 May.
>80 are dead, 35,000 homeless
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“This is not just our story,” said Mangalleima, who said warning signs were evident for months. “As much as the Meitei are affected, the Kuki are also affected. What are we gaining from this fight? It is a failure of law enforcement.”
India has dropped 11 places in the World Press Freedom Index, from 150 in 2022 to 161 in 2023 rsf.org/en/country/ind…
"The violence against journalists, the politically partisan media and the concentration of media ownership all demonstrate that press freedom is in crisis in 'the world’s largest democracy.'"
"Indian law is protective in theory but charges of defamation, sedition, contempt of court and endangering national security are increasingly used against journalists critical of the government, who are branded as 'anti-national.'”
“Some days it’s so hot that our skin burns, or we have flood.” Renuka Pawar watches over her infant in her kopi, a makeshift home where she lives 6 months a year near sugarcane fields. #Climate risks are rising for #migrant workers. @iyerkavi
“We’ve lived like this for generations.” Renuka Pawar does not think better #housing is possible for #Maharashtra’s #sugarcane#migrantworkers. A young mother to a months old infant, she has no access to toilets or running water, cooks on a wood hearth outdoors.
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“We had loans, we needed the money.” Alka Wagh of Malegaon, 400 km from their work site in Jalna, on why she had her son marry a 17-year-old girl whose family they paid Rs 15,000. An additional couple is an additional income during the annual #sugarcane harvest.
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Prabhakar Bhagyawant got 30 stitches after he fell 20 ft from a tractor transporting #sugarcane. He lost 45 work days, couldn’t work off a an advance payment. @iyerkavi on a debt bondage system that persists in #India's richest state economy
“Neither the sugar factory nor the labour contractor will pay for medical expenses.” Bhagyawant, 39, of Dharur in #Beed, #Maharashtra, has migrated to #Karnataka for 20 years as #sugarcane harvest worker. The Rs 25,000 hospital bill will be recovered from his pay
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Cane harvest worker Adinath Sonawane died in 2020 in Pune district when a truck his his motorbike as he returned to the fields from the #sugar factory. Union leaders managed to get ex gratia payment for his family, but his wife Parvati can no longer find regular work
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With no local lawyer ready to fight her case & threats allegedly made to Delhi lawyers, family of traumatised Muslim law student narrates how she spent 54 days in jail before #SupremeCourt gave bail. @Samriddhi0809 reports
Sonu Mansoori’s ordeal began when lawyers accosted the 21-yr-old for recording bail hearing of a #BajrangDal man in a court in Indore on 28 Jan. They searched her, found Rs 1 lakh & accused her of being “spy” for the banned Popular Front of India
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All #SupremeCourt trials are telecast & there is no ban on recording court proceedings. Sonu said the money was surety for a client of the lawyer she worked for. The police detained her for 6 hrs & filed an FIR after midnight.
Yesterday, a #SupremeCourt bench led by the Chief Justice gave the home ministry 2 weeks—first ordered in Sept 2022—to collate data on cases filed & action taken against attacks on #Christians.
Here is a thread on our investigations of attacks against #Christians in 3 states
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In Nov 2021, @nikita_jain15 reported from #Uttarakhand how civil rights campaigners recorded 305 attacks against Christians in 21 states between Jan-Sept 2021, almost every attack followed by a police case against a pastor alleging religious conversion. article-14.com/post/pastors-a…
In Dec 2021, @mohitmrao travelled to 4 #Karnataka districts & found many attacks unreported, pastors & congregations fearful, with police reluctant to act against attackers, most allied with the ruling #BJP or its sister outfits article-14.com/post/as-bjp-ta…