Letter to BS: Enact laws offering social security to migrant workers

The states where they migrate to earn their livelihood treat them as uninvited guests

This refers to the Q&A “Movement of migrants must not be encouraged” (May 4). After five weeks of the nationwide lockdown, the Centre announced another extension for two weeks till May 17. The government, a day earlier, an­n­oun­ced six special trains, allowing travel of mi­grant workers to their home states. Further, it divided the nation into Red, Orange, and Green zones and eased restrictions on economic ac­tivities with certain guidelines. Sta­tes have been asked to relax the rules depending on local conditions.

Following the Centre’s an­n­oun­cement, state governments have started sending/receiving the stra­nded migrant workers after screening or isolating them. The