While the Modi govt looks to gradually restart the economic activity, states like Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have started bringing their migrant population back.
The labour and finance ministries are working on the proposal, even as RSS’ labour wing BMS is asking govt to formulate a new national policy on labourers.
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Mahesh Jena, a 20-year-old worker in Sangli, Maharashtra, chose a perilous journey home over uncertainty & confusion that's gripped the migrant community.
The process will involve registration, skill-mapping and screening in the states where workers are located, before they are transported to work sites in buses.
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Migrant may not come back in full strength .. Ther has been too much violence against Migrant labor .. may prefer low wages at home rather than a little more in other State.. Corona will relocate the MSME closer to labor location and not near market location
Just as the COVID-19 tells us not to over depend on China, it should also be a lesson to states to retain their own people within with respect and not allow them to be made into a exploitable work force in connivance with the brokers(Labor Contractors) of the employers.
It will be a great opportunity to regulate the migratory labor to ensure a dignity to them.
Save this country from the brokers, who only make money by paying off someone so they are not held to account and are a common sight from the street of the red-light districts to the corridors of power.
Brilliant question! Just one little problem – the term ‘’migrant’ hides behind it the fact that behind it is a individual like you and me, but destitute, without any money or food and maybe no place to stay. Ensure two or three of the above for this guy alongwith some medical support and a vision of his employment coming back, and he just might ‘choose’ to stay where he is. Did this question strike you instead?
Migrant may not come back in full strength .. Ther has been too much violence against Migrant labor .. may prefer low wages at home rather than a little more in other State.. Corona will relocate the MSME closer to labor location and not near market location
Just as the COVID-19 tells us not to over depend on China, it should also be a lesson to states to retain their own people within with respect and not allow them to be made into a exploitable work force in connivance with the brokers(Labor Contractors) of the employers.
It will be a great opportunity to regulate the migratory labor to ensure a dignity to them.
Save this country from the brokers, who only make money by paying off someone so they are not held to account and are a common sight from the street of the red-light districts to the corridors of power.
Brilliant question! Just one little problem – the term ‘’migrant’ hides behind it the fact that behind it is a individual like you and me, but destitute, without any money or food and maybe no place to stay. Ensure two or three of the above for this guy alongwith some medical support and a vision of his employment coming back, and he just might ‘choose’ to stay where he is. Did this question strike you instead?