UP govt to set up Migration Commission to ensure job, social security

CM Adityanath directed officials to prepare the roadmap of constituting the Migration Commission

Amid the massive influx of stranded labourers following covid-19 lockdown, the Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday announced to set up a Migration Commission for the welfare of migrants.

The Commission will look into the emergent issues of the skill mapping of these workers and providing them with jobs and social security.

Chairing a review meeting here, chief minister Yogi Adityanath directed officials to prepare the roadmap of constituting the Migration Commission and taking forward the agenda of providing jobs to the incoming migrants.
 

So far, 2.3 million workers have returned to UP from industrialised states, such as Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab,