Ensuring access to sufficient food and health services for sugarcane migrants

Maharashtra is among the States with the highest prevalence of thinness among children as per the same report. The situation is more pronounced among the migrants in Maharashtra. The women and children are the worst hit as they work long hours, travel for days, and live in insecure conditions. The poverty, living conditions, and migratory lives, poses challenges for the families to ensure good nutrition particularly among the children.

MGVS is currently pursuing ways to ensure that children and women among the sugarcane cutter worker migrant families of Maharashtra can access their nutrition and health entitlements. In this context, MGVS has done a preliminary survey in the 120 villages of districts of Aurangabad, Beed, and Jalna – the districts that are both source and destination for migrant workers who are mostly involved in harvest and transportation of sugarcane.