NEW DELHI: Delhi
Pradesh Congress Committee president Shri Ajay Maken said that due to the
faulty implementation of demonetization, the sword of unemployment has been
hanging over the heads of 48.63 lakh unorganized/informal workforce in Delhi,
and due to that a large number of migrant labour have fled Delhi to their
homes.
Ajay Maken said that the 48.63 lakh
unorganized/informal workforce in Delhi consist of first-generation migrant
labour. He said after the faulty implementation of demonetization, reverse
migration has begun in Delhi, and lakhs of labour have already returned to
their homes, and 10 to 15,000 labourers are returning to their homes from Delhi
every day, which is stalling development works in Delhi.
He said labour in the unorganized/informal
sector is the real lifeline of Delhi, who sustains and keeps the city going.
They are the providers of affordable services and labour. Besides Shri Ajay
Maken, others present at the press conference were ex-MP Shri Mahabal Mishra,
Shri Chattar Singh, Delhi Poorvanchal Congress chairman Shri Shivji Singh,
Delhi Parvatiya Congress chairman Shri Brijmohan Upreti and Delhi South Indian
Congress chairman Shri R. Mani Naidu.
Shri Maken said he had written a letter to
Delhi Chief Minister Shri Arvind Kejriwal on 9 December, 2016, bringing to his
attention the unemployment spectre looming large over the 48.63 lakh
unorganized/informal workforce in Delhi due to the faulty implementation of
demonetization, and their reverse migration on account of that, and had urged
the CM to take steps to stop the reverse migration of this informal work
force before it assumes a point of no
return.
Quoting the NSSO survey on Employment, Maken
said that as per the 68th Round between the year 2011-2012, the working
population of Delhi was 57.06 lakhs. “The data of Directorate of Employment,
Delhi Government reveals that the total number of workers in the organised
sector was 8.43 Lakh in 2009.
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