Articles and Notes

(Please point out any relevant missing document at citizensforum.at.iitk@gmail.com)

Informative Articles

Below you will find several articles, notes and studies shedding light on the condition of workers within IITK campus. These include course-projects, community-news articles, and notes circulated by the involved community members.

• • A rare opening of the house, Saumyen Guha, Eyes, June 2013 (A report in the IITK campus newsmagazine Eyes covering Open House 2013)

  • Study of Human Resource Management of SIS Security Agency at IIT Kanpur, A course project for MBA616, 2013 (January-April semester).

  • The ‘Labour Problem’ at IITK: Where are we heading?, Rahul Varman, 2011

  • The life of a construction labourer @IIT, Concerned IITK Students, 2010

  • The Thorny Issue of Contract Workers at IITK: A Response to Commonly Held Misconceptions, Rahul Varman, 2010

  • Hamara Manch - A Forum for Unheard Voices, Mini Chandran, Eyes, Feb 2010

  • Workers’ Choice: Succumb to Survive, Ashok Gupta, 2010

  • How Lack of Documentation Leads to Exploitation, Ashok Gupta, 2010

  • Systematic Disregard of Human Lives for Profits, Ashok Gupta, 2010

  • The Law and the Reality at IIT Kanpur - Why the empowered feels powerless?, Ashok Gupta, 2010

  • Contract workers: a community perspective, A presentation by the campus community to alumni, 10th Jan, 2010.

  • IITK Polluting Its Neighbor, A collage of photographs demonstrating "garbage disposal" of IITK.

  • Speaking out for their rights, Ishan Mahajan, April 2009

  • हमारी साँसों के पहरेदार (Hamari Sanson Ke Pahredaar), Vivek Mehta, 2009

• Just Give Them Their Due, T. Archana & M. Anantharaman, Voices 2007

  • Minimum Wage Legislation - Does it really help?, Sumit Sarkar, Voices 2007

• Operationalising labour standards: A case of implementing minimum wages, Manali Chakrabarti, Rahul Varman, March 2005 (A version of the article also appeared in Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 50,1).

• Privatization of hostel messes (issues and effects), A course project for MBA-617, 2005.

• A study on the job of a security guard of the SIS agency in IIT Kanpur, A course project for MBA-616, 2005.

• A Study of the Living and Working conditions of Contract Construction Workers -- The IIT Kanpur Case Study, A course project at IITK.

Creative Articles

Sometimes the outburst and anger of those involved takes a creative shape. We attempt to collect some of them below:

• आप को हमारे दुःख का अहसास क्यूँ हो, Ashok Gupta, April 2013

• (After returning from the CF trip to IITK in March 2013)

• फोटो, Manali Chakrabarti, September, 2012 (On the recent photo-op that accompanied the compensation check for death of a worker)