Page 5 - Indian Migrant Workers

CMs to discuss migrants issue, exit strategy with PM Narendra Modi today

Several CMs say they're staring at economic ruin if limited activity is not started

Government to launch online portal for stranded migrant workers

The move will help government to pass on relief benefits to migrant workers and do skill mapping

Shelter home generates livelihood for jobless labourers in Chhattisgarh

Surajpur Collector Deepak Soni said that the administration has provided work to more than 500 poor people at the shelter home

Seeds of trouble

Labour shortage puts record rabi harvest at risk

SC disposes plea seeking immediate relief to poor, homeless in lockdown

Referring to prevailing circumstances, the bench said, this is a situation where we cannot say whether some task has to be done one way or another

Covid-19: Stranded migrants can work during lockdown, but conditions apply

No interstate movement allowed; registration with local authorities must

Coronavirus: Govt seeks industry views on how to bring workforce back

According to sources, Labour and Employment Secretary Heeralal Samariya reached out to industry executives, a day after the Home Ministry's revised lockdown guidelines

India coronavirus dispatch: Role of financing in crisis control, recovery

From the role of finance in containing the fallout and supporting recovery, to halting rumours, and what epidemiologists actually do - read these and more in today's India dispatch

As migrants grow restless in lockdown, govt weighs cash transfer option

State governments told to expedite data collection of migrant labour

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

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

No cold turkey start: Experts want phased exit from coronavirus lockdown

Pronab Sen, former chief statistician, pointed out, "In the unaffected districts, we should open up the lockdown but not allow movement out of these areas.''

Covid-19: 'Not an expert body' on lodging, feeding migrant workers, says SC

The Supreme Court bench said it cannot take a "better policy decision" at this stage and moreover, it also does not want to interfere with the policy decisions for next ten-fifteen days

Homeward bound - cinematic take on the invisible lives of migrant workers

Beyond the workers' labour, these films ventured to underline their personhood - their ideas, habits, sexual appetites, fears, and capacity for feeling

Seal border to stop migrant workers: Centre issues advisory to states

The states have been asked to stop incoming buses at the border and place the occupants on mandatory 14-day quarantine

Panic becoming bigger problem than coronavirus: SC on migrant workers issue

SC seeks report from govt on steps taken to prevent migration of workers

How's India dealing with Covid-19? Here's the latest on the pandemic

There have been reports claiming the government might extend the lockdown beyond the stipulated 21 days, but the government has denied these reports

MHA rejigs rules; state disaster funds to be used to feed migrant workers

The migrant workers are left with no option but to walk as normal transport services have been hit after the announcement of the nationwide lockdown by Modi on Tuesday

Food riots may occur if food is not present for migrant workers: Pronab Sen

'If supply system doesn't come unstuck, if the requirements of people who have no income are not met then food riots are very real possibility,' he said

Covid-19: UP govt arranges 1,000 buses to ferry stranded migrant labourers

The 21-day lockdown has triggered a mass exodus of migrant workers

Ready to fly migrant workers from Delhi, Mumbai to Patna: SpiceJet CMD

Migrant workers were seen walking on foot for hundreds of kilometers across the states - be it from Delhi, Telangana or Kerala to reach their home states