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'Walking for three days and yet miles to go before we can reach home'
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Ghaziabad/Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Several daily wage workers and migrant labourers who had once left their homes and moved to the national capital in search of work have been taking the arduous trek back to their villages since the 21 days countrywide lockdown was anno
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Andhra and Karnataka govts carry out joint quarantine operations for migra
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): The state governments of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka carried out a joint quarantine operation to help over a thousand migrant labourers from various districts of Andhra Pradesh.
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Wage under MNREGA affixed as Rs 201 per day in UP from April 1
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 27 (ANI): The Uttar Pradesh government has affixed the wage for unskilled labour as Rs 201 per day under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA) from April 1.
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CPI leader writes to PM, seeks transport for migrant workers
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 27 (ANI): CPI MP Binoy Viswam on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking transport for the migrant labourers who are on their journey to their villages on foot and to ensure the safe return of these workers.
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Fear of starvation driving migrants out of national capital
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 27 (ANI): The fear of starvation due to lockdown is driving out migrant labourers from the national capital.
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Union Home Secretary writes to States, UTs to provide food and shelter to
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 27 (ANI): Union Home Secretary AK Bhalla has written to all States and Union Territories (UTs) to take immediate steps to provide adequate support, including food and shelter, to migrant agricultural labourers, industrial workers and other unorganised sector workers du
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TN govt appoints 500 doctors, 1000 nurses and 1508 lab technicians
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Mar 27 (ANI): In view of the current situation of COVID-19, Tamil Nadu government on Friday issued appointment orders to 1508 lab technicians, 500 doctors and 1000 nurses for immediate joining.
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Delhi: Good Samaritans provide food to daily wage labourers in Sadar Bazar
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 27 (ANI): Daily wage labourers in the capital city's largest wholesale market, Sadar Bazar, are facing tough times as there is no work due to the nationwide lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. However, some good samaritans of the area have come to their r
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U'khand Disaster Management Secretary orders distribution of food packets
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], Mar 27 (ANI): Uttarakhand Disaster Management Secretary, Amit Negi, has directed all the District Magistrates of the state to prepare a list and distribute food packets among senior citizens, pregnant women and daily wage labourers amid the countrywide lockdow
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'No option but to walk home': Group of labourers set on 300km journey amid
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 27 (ANI): Out of work and with no money at hand, a group of daily wage labourers set out on foot for a 300 km journey from Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad to their native village of Dausa in Rajasthan. The COVID-19 lockdown has left them with no shelter and f
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Night shelters provide food and accommodation to stranded workers amid loc
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 27 (ANI): The night shelters run by the Delhi government have been proving food and accommodation to hundreds of daily wage labourers who have been left stranded in the city following the nationwide lockdown.
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Organisations lend helping hand to migrant workers, labourers amid COVID-1
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Aligarh/New Delhi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 27 (ANI): Several organisations have come forward to lend a helping hand to migrant workers who found themselves without shelter and food in the wake of 21-day COVID-19 lockdown in the country.
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