Mariwala Health Initiative
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Over 65% of MNREGA workers in Rajasthan are women, many of whom rely on these wages to sustain their households and support their children’s education. Every summer, rising heat exposes them to unsafe working conditions, wage discrimination, and inadequate protections while unrecognised, unpaid domestic labour continues at home.
The impact is both physical exhaustion and emotional distress, shaped by heat, economic precarity, and invisible labour.
Last year, MHI’s work under the Rajasthan Heat Project focused on strengthening advocacy for safer working conditions under MNREGA. With its replacement by the VB-RAM-G Act, the crisis now extends beyond unsafe work to the erosion of guaranteed employment itself.
In video: Amrai Devi from Paluna village Badkochra grampanchayat, Ajmer | Interviewed by and recorded by Kartik | November 2023
06/05/2026
‼️Last year, the first edition of MHI’s zine ‘Unfiltered: Mental Health from the Margins’ — held stories that don’t usually make it into mental health conversations; garment workers navigating precarity, the uneven intimacies of motherhood, caste and labour shaping everyday distress, q***r and disabled lives negotiating care.
Our second edition will continue in that direction, while opening up more ways of storytelling —across forms, languages, and contexts that are often sidelined in how mental health is documented and understood.
🔗Deadline is 24th May, click link in bio for more information.
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