Aajeevika Bureau

Aajeevika Bureau's vision is to become a leading agency working to ensure secure and dignified lives of communities dependent on migration and labour. The Bureau's mission is to provide lasting solutions to economic and socio-legal problems of migrant workers - directly as well as through partners - by creating replicable models offering services and security at both source and destination.

Ahmedabad (Gujarat)

Major In-Migration Streams from Rajasthan
Construction, hotel and restaurants, domestic services, manufacture and repair, headloading and transportation

Main Source Areas
All districts of southern Rajasthan and several from western Rajasthan including Pali, Jalore, Jodhpur and Barmer etc. Ahmedabad also attracts large number of migrant workers from UP, Bihar and within from Gujarat.

Ahmedabad is the most rapidly growing commercial and urban hub of Gujarat.The city of over 5 million people continues to sprawl outwards. The expanding economy in Ahmedabad has fueled an increasing demand for labour, especially in the informal sector. For thisreason, Ahmedabad has amongst the largest concentrations of Rajasthani migrants in Gujarat and the presence of these migrants is in a very wide economic spectrum of the city. Some of the majoroccupations migrants work in include: hotel/restaurant, construction, factories, loading/unloading, and scrap/junk collecting. Located near the state capital, it is also well situated for state level advocacy and legislative action in support of migrant workers across the state.

The Aajeevika centre in Ahmedabad works on many of the issues faced by migrant labourers in this large urban setting. The centre has helped organise trade based collectives that look after the interests of those entering the market in their sectors. The centre actively provides registration and photo ID service to those migrants that lack any form of identity. Given the highly diversified economy of Ahmedabad city and many new opening vistas for employment, the training and placement service is a major activity of the Bureau. Legal aid and counselling is also a service provided by the Bureau for migrants that have disputes.

       Shramik Sahayata Evam Sandarbh Kendra
         86, Ganpat Society                                                                Phone - 079 - 65441706
         Near Kutchi Jain Bhawan
         Opp. Rajasthan Hospital, Shahi Bagh                           ahmd@aajeevika.org
         AHMEDABAD (Gujarat)