Learning lessons from Data Science Camps
Co-presented with Sathish Thipparapu, Rani Guntikadi and Sowkya Bandi. It covered the CCDS camp model that has placed about 2,000 welfare-school students in IT. Read the write-up →
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Where I have spoken about welfare, work and the people at the end of the line.
BBC WorklifeIndia · BBC World Service · 20 September 2022 · 24 min
What’s behind rising suicides among India’s daily wagers?
One in four Indians who died by suicide in 2021 was a daily wage earner. Presenter Devina Gupta asked what is driving it, and whether welfare schemes are reaching the people who need them. I joined Nikhil Dey of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan and labour rights activist Nida Ansari, speaking as someone who grew up in a daily wage household and was then working on welfare data at LibTech India.
Credited as “Palle Ajay Swaero, IT consultant at LibTech India, son of daily wage worker”
Watch on bbc.co.uk ↗About the episode
Daily wage workers make up a large share of India's informal workforce, and in 2021 they were one in four of the people who died by suicide in the country. The episode asked what lies behind that number, and whether welfare schemes are reaching the people they were written for. I joined the discussion while working on public welfare data at LibTech India, bringing both that evidence and my own family's experience.