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Hamara Manch Newsletter
# Since May 2019, there is a renewed attempt to bring out a newsletter. (The earlier attempt can be found below). We are going to keep collecting the same on this page.
# An introduction to why the newsletter from Hamara Manch is below:
Why this Newsletter
This is an attempt to bring the ground reality of working in the campus to the concerned community members. We intend to capture the daily routine, what a worker faces at work, that we keep hearing from workers in our weekly meetings, but have not shared so far with our friends on a regular basis.
In this first issue we bring some incidents from the working of hall messes. We have not shared details regarding the identity of specific halls as Hamara Manch does not believe in pointing fingers at individuals; our focus is on debating and setting right the larger problem of worker rights. What we are particularly alarmed at is the increasing incidences of the violation of dignity of workers as humans and as workers. And there exists no redressal mechanism for this day-day-day almost invisible dehumanisation of these workers. Now that at some places at least through the long-standing community effort workers wages and some economic rights are granted, apparently violation of dignity has become acceptable and part of the deal.
This is a serious concern and there is a dire need to have a conversation about these issues. Let us remember that these workers are the ones who make possible the smooth functioning of the institute every day – our clean roads and toilets, manicured gardens, our food, security, buildings, so on and so forth.
Of course these stories are the worker side of it, though we do make immense efforts to cross check any such incident with fellow workers and users/ officials wherever possible given our meagre resources and access. So on any of these issues if you have any other set of facts, please do share with us. We have promised ourselves that we will try to bring this newsletter to you at regular intervals. Please share it as widely as you can and please share your feedback with us. Of course, needless to say, if you do not want to receive it, please drop a line.
# हमारी चौपाल, हमारी बात (Hamaari Chaupaal, Hamaari Baat)
Some workers and friends at Hamara Manch earlier experimented with bringing out a newsletter of their own, see this welcome message. We attempted to collect them below.