Migration Resource Centre in Nasik

Disha’s recent study revealed that there are approximately 4 lakh temporary labour migrants in Nasik city who are engaged as unskilled and semi-skilled workers in construction, agriculture and other informal economy.

These migrants are mainly from tribal blocks around Nasik, drought prone areas of Maharashtra and other states such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh. Migrants urban poor are particularly vulnerable because of their alien status, irregular employment, widespread illiteracy and reduced capacity to negotiate better access to basic civic amenities. They mainly reside in unauthorized slums, open spaces as squatters, where they often face consent threat of eviction, removal confiscation of goods and almost non-existent social security cover.

MRC for Migrant Workers

Disha has extended its established model i.e. Migration Information Resource Centre’s for migrants and other unorganized sector workers in Nasik.

Facilitation for positive migration though Migration Information and Resource Centre (MIRC) is core of all activities of Disha. MIRCs covers Nasik city (as destination) and 4 blocks- Harsul, Nasik, Peth and Trymbak of Nasik district (source areas). These MIRC’s facilitates migrating families for skill training, job placement and access to all basic social security services before and during migration at source and destination level.

Registration - The union’s ID card process is very effective among migrants, many of them has benefit of the card against police harassment, wages exploitation from contractors, and even as a reference document to get benefit of government schemes such as ration card, voters cards and other welfare schemes.