Covid-19 impact: Govt begins mapping of migrant workers for relief measures

The central government has begun one of the most comprehensive exercises to map migrant workers scattered across the country — in relief camps, on their employers’ premises, or in clusters where they reside.
 

The government wants to create a database of millions of such workers to ascertain whether a relief package could be announced for the most affected segment of the workforce due to the national lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19), a senior labour and employment ministry official said.
 

The Union home ministry and the labour ministry have asked state governments to coordinate with the chief labour