{"id":247536,"date":"2023-06-12T20:49:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=247536"},"modified":"2023-06-13T10:09:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T04:39:48","slug":"look-deeper-into-the-balasore-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/look-deeper-into-the-balasore-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Deeper Into The Balasore Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source:\u00a0<\/b>The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cLook Deeper Into The Balasore Tragedy\u201d<\/b> published in The Times of India <\/b>on\u00a012th <\/strong>June\u00a0<\/b>2023<\/b><\/p>\n

Syllabus:<\/strong>\u00a0GS 3 \u2013 Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc.<\/p>\n

Relevance:<\/strong> About making urban centres disable friendly.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Many of those who perished in the <\/span>triple-train collision near Odisha\u2019s Balasore, were migrant workers from West Bengal who were either heading to southern India to resume work or were travelling in search of jobs.<\/p>\n

About the recent train accident and the issue of railway safety in India<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Must read:\u00a0<\/strong>The Issue of Indian railway safety \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

About the Migrant workforce of India<\/h2>\n

Migrants were part of a 450-million workforce, contributing an estimated 10% to India\u2019s GDP. According to the Census of India, 33 million people migrated for employment-related reasons in 2001, which further increased to 51 million in 2011.<\/p>\n

A 2013 survey conducted by Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation shows 50.6% of Bengaluru\u2019s population comprises migrants. Similarly, 62% of the entire 2. 5 million migrant population of Kerala is accounted for by just four states \u2013 Bengal, Bihar, Odisha and Assam, with Bengal alone accounting for 20%.<\/p>\n

Why there is an increased migration to southern India?<\/h2>\n

According to the Census of India (2011), between 2001 and 2011, nearly 5.8 lakh people migrated from Bengal to other states in search of work, with a large number moving to various cities and towns in southern India in view of the higher daily wages. For example, a bricklayer earns \u20b91,200 a day in Kerala, the same job would fetch around \u20b9450 in rural Bengal.<\/p>\n

According to the 2017 Economic Survey, Delhi, Maharashtra and Gujarat attracted a large number of migrants, mostly from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. A large number of these workers are employed in unorganised sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Must read: Migrant workers and their Social protection in India \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

So, the state governments should increase their ability to provide enough job opportunities to their domiciled resident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source:\u00a0The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cLook Deeper Into The Balasore Tragedy\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a012th June\u00a02023 Syllabus:\u00a0GS 3 \u2013 Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc. Relevance: About making urban centres disable friendly. News: Many of those who perished in the triple-train collision near Odisha\u2019s Balasore, were migrant workers from West… Continue reading Look Deeper Into The Balasore Tragedy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-247536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704852573},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}