Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend

Budget 2025 | Only 7% households, on average, have worked the full 100 days guaranteed under the programme, while wages remain low and allocations are not keeping pace.

Rohingya asylum seeker, a 19-year-old woman, endured months of trauma after being raped and was forced to cross into Bangladesh for an abortion due to legal barriers in India. Despite her efforts, the accused remains free.

Since 2019, the budget allocation for the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) that has 129 million active workers has been consistently lower than or at most same as the previous year’s revised estimates

Migrant workers from various eastern states in Ernakulam say that returning home to vote means job loss and incurring high expenses which many do not want to risk