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Parliament panel may recommend portal job cards, data on migrant workers

Committee believes the government has not maintained datasets to estimate the number of migrant workers in country

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Under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme, member of a household in villages can demand employment within five kilometers of the village where she resides

Somesh Jha New Delhi

3 min read Last Updated : Aug 29 2020 | 1:48 AM IST

A Parliamentary standing committee is likely to present a road map by mid-September on improving the conditions of migrant workers in which it may ask the government to give portable job cards to them, along with a database to keep a count of such workers.

According to people in the know, the Standing Committee on Labour, chaired by Biju Janata Dal MP Bhartruhari Mahtab, has been holding meetings with various ministries of the central government to frame a “plan and programme for the migrant workers”, the most affected section of the working class during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The issue of

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