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Manifesting almost immediately into a public health crisis, COVID-19 has had unique impacts wherein the intervention to prevent the spread of infections and minimize the casualties, itself proved discriminatory in terms of livelihood consequences for the disadvantaged.
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Every state in India constitutes Construction Workers Welfare Board under the The Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Cess Act 1996. For all construction activities in states, a cess needs to be paid to the welfare board, which is expected to be utilized for welfare of construction workers.
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Choudhary, N. (2022). Informality, Migrants and the Rarity of Organizing: Insights from India During COVID-19. In: Informal Workers and Organized Action. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4281-4_9
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