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Doesn’t the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) coordinate logistics of people inside India? Why create more government when you already have people who coordinate movement and safety of citizens in cases of disaster, natural calamities, civil uprisings, etc.? What is Amit Shah doing at this time? Please hold these leaders accountable!!!
The requirement of a Ministry for migrants is a must for all state and the central Govt. It is required for
1. To provide help to migrants in emergencies such as these,
2. To provide guidance and help in getting id proof, housing, job, rations, medical help etc to incoming migrants. They need to maintain and project the type of skills required, and
3. To follow up on the migrants and ensure their welfare.
The first problem here would be the left liberals who will shout loss of liberty, identity tracking etc etc.
Print being part of such a grouping should come out clearly on what it recommends rather than whine later.
“Much of the blame on this issue that was directed at the Narendra Modi government immediately after the lockdown was unfair”.
Seriously?
Nothing could have summed up the writer’s bias more explicitly. Instead of the PM who announced a shocking, reckless late night lockdown, he blames the experts for not having alerting the govt! Really? How far would you go to defend an inept decision? In fact, the writer should not be so short-sighted to believe that there was none who warned that the unorganised workers would be worst hit much before the lockdown. Just because it does not fall before the writer’s eye does not mean others were lying drunk. And who’s exactly supposed to have an inkling of the aftermath: the announced to or the announcer? Please, don’t let the logic desert you so completely.
Thank you… these are my thoughts too. I was in India during demonitisation which was incredibly difficult for those who already lived near the poverty line. I can’t believe Modi would repeat the same scenario for the pandemic without taking better precautions for the migrant workers! He’s so full of bravado… then fails to follow through with effective implementation.
You have hit it right. The Takshashila Institute,, from where Nitin Pai hails may not be a frontal for the Hindutv think tank, but it clearly is a close relative. Imagine blaming state Governments, who are cash strapped, to bear the cost of Railways, a Central Govt undertaking. Who better than Modi Stooge Piyush Goel could have directed free travel? As such he waited for Saheb or mota bhai to give a green signal that never came. And Modi got unprecedented majority with help of these labour votes. During, 2019 general elections, these very labourers were transported in buses and trains to their native to vote. The ground soldiers of BJP in in migrant states like Gujarat did the job then. Mr.Pai if Modi did not know what migrant workers are to an industrial state say Gujarat, where he rule for 13 years before going to Delhi , no other expert can know better. DO NOT DEFEND MODI HERE,
What is Mukesh Ambani, sitting on tonnes of obscene money, doing to help the hapless migrants. Shekhar Gupta, undoubtedly a fawning fan of the honcho, is still promoting pieces on this man’s economic derring do. Why so???
Modi has recently re dedicated the MEA to herding Indians Abroad. But re dedicating the Home Ministry to Indians within India may be too much of a change for the Colonial-Communist Police State?
This entire handling of the issue of migrant workers and other daily wage earners is a saga of lack of any planning on the part of the Central Government, followed by utter mismanagement. Modi Government’s priority lay elsewhere, and the media , including the Print, is not asking the questions that it should have asked long ago. These hapless citizens of India – simply because they are poor and are not part of our “diaspora” for whom the best treatment is reserved – are being treated as dirt, to say the least. The same Sevak, who is ever ready to invoke Swami Vivekananda in everything, has forgotten all about the great Swami’s exhortation that these people are the living gods we must serve. For what purpose is the government collecting huge sums of money from the corporates, and by arm twisting whosoever it can, if it cannot feed these people on whom the economy moves? And most unfortunate part of the saga is that even the Supreme Court of India feels that depriving the poor of their livelihood and then failing to provide them with the minimum wage is not denying them their constitutional right to liefe! What has happened to the conscience of this country?
Whereas the Migrants are within India under custody of Indian states , NRI’s were not … or Indians stranded in outside were not under safe custody of the India. So why are you making this as an issue?
Doesn’t the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) coordinate logistics of people inside India? Why create more government when you already have people who coordinate movement and safety of citizens in cases of disaster, natural calamities, civil uprisings, etc.? What is Amit Shah doing at this time? Please hold these leaders accountable!!!
The requirement of a Ministry for migrants is a must for all state and the central Govt. It is required for
1. To provide help to migrants in emergencies such as these,
2. To provide guidance and help in getting id proof, housing, job, rations, medical help etc to incoming migrants. They need to maintain and project the type of skills required, and
3. To follow up on the migrants and ensure their welfare.
The first problem here would be the left liberals who will shout loss of liberty, identity tracking etc etc.
Print being part of such a grouping should come out clearly on what it recommends rather than whine later.
“Much of the blame on this issue that was directed at the Narendra Modi government immediately after the lockdown was unfair”.
Seriously?
Nothing could have summed up the writer’s bias more explicitly. Instead of the PM who announced a shocking, reckless late night lockdown, he blames the experts for not having alerting the govt! Really? How far would you go to defend an inept decision? In fact, the writer should not be so short-sighted to believe that there was none who warned that the unorganised workers would be worst hit much before the lockdown. Just because it does not fall before the writer’s eye does not mean others were lying drunk. And who’s exactly supposed to have an inkling of the aftermath: the announced to or the announcer? Please, don’t let the logic desert you so completely.
Thank you… these are my thoughts too. I was in India during demonitisation which was incredibly difficult for those who already lived near the poverty line. I can’t believe Modi would repeat the same scenario for the pandemic without taking better precautions for the migrant workers! He’s so full of bravado… then fails to follow through with effective implementation.
You have hit it right. The Takshashila Institute,, from where Nitin Pai hails may not be a frontal for the Hindutv think tank, but it clearly is a close relative. Imagine blaming state Governments, who are cash strapped, to bear the cost of Railways, a Central Govt undertaking. Who better than Modi Stooge Piyush Goel could have directed free travel? As such he waited for Saheb or mota bhai to give a green signal that never came. And Modi got unprecedented majority with help of these labour votes. During, 2019 general elections, these very labourers were transported in buses and trains to their native to vote. The ground soldiers of BJP in in migrant states like Gujarat did the job then. Mr.Pai if Modi did not know what migrant workers are to an industrial state say Gujarat, where he rule for 13 years before going to Delhi , no other expert can know better. DO NOT DEFEND MODI HERE,
What is Mukesh Ambani, sitting on tonnes of obscene money, doing to help the hapless migrants. Shekhar Gupta, undoubtedly a fawning fan of the honcho, is still promoting pieces on this man’s economic derring do. Why so???
Modi has recently re dedicated the MEA to herding Indians Abroad. But re dedicating the Home Ministry to Indians within India may be too much of a change for the Colonial-Communist Police State?
This entire handling of the issue of migrant workers and other daily wage earners is a saga of lack of any planning on the part of the Central Government, followed by utter mismanagement. Modi Government’s priority lay elsewhere, and the media , including the Print, is not asking the questions that it should have asked long ago. These hapless citizens of India – simply because they are poor and are not part of our “diaspora” for whom the best treatment is reserved – are being treated as dirt, to say the least. The same Sevak, who is ever ready to invoke Swami Vivekananda in everything, has forgotten all about the great Swami’s exhortation that these people are the living gods we must serve. For what purpose is the government collecting huge sums of money from the corporates, and by arm twisting whosoever it can, if it cannot feed these people on whom the economy moves? And most unfortunate part of the saga is that even the Supreme Court of India feels that depriving the poor of their livelihood and then failing to provide them with the minimum wage is not denying them their constitutional right to liefe! What has happened to the conscience of this country?
Whereas the Migrants are within India under custody of Indian states , NRI’s were not … or Indians stranded in outside were not under safe custody of the India. So why are you making this as an issue?