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WTC Chandigarh ensures safety and security of its workers
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab)[India], Apr 6 (ANI/NewsVoir): The COVID-19 pandemic followed by lockdown in the country has left many migrants labourers with no food and shelter.
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Jaiveer Shergill burns 2 lamps, says will light 7 more if govt lives up to
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): As the nation expressed solidarity in the battle against COVID-19 by lighting diyas in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's '9pm9minute' call, Congress leader Jaiveer Shergill took a jibe at the Centre, saying that he will light more lamps when relief is
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Goa Youth hostel turns shelter for tourists, labourers stuck amid lockdown
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], April 5 (ANI): As hundreds of people got stuck in various cities due to the nationwide lockdown which was imposed on March 24, a youth hostel at Miramar in Goa is housing a group of people from diverse backgrounds - a Chinese national down for a sabbatical to a couple o
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NGO provides free medicines to labourers in J-K's Poonch
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Poonch (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], April 5 (ANI): Free medicines are being provided to the labourers by NGO 'Ummeed Welfare Society' during the lockdown imposed in the backdrop of COVID-19 outbreak. The NGO is also conducting free health check-ups of the workers.
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Migrant labourers stuck in Mumbai plead with govt to send them home
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Apr 3 (ANI): The central government should help the migrant and daily wage labourers to reach their homes as the lockdown has hit these people the most, said one of the members of Rahul Tarun Mitra Mandal association in Mumbai on Friday.
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Swiggy launches the 'Hope, Not Hunger' initiative to feed the needy
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 2 (ANI): India's largest food delivery platform Swiggy said on Thursday it has partnered with various commercial kitchens, NGOs and state governments to provide daily meals to thousands of underprivileged, daily wagers and stranded migrant labourers who have limited
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Centre directs states, union territories to provide for redressal of migra
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 2 (ANI): Amid movement of migrant workers during the coronavirus pandemic, Preeti Sudan, Secretary at Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has written to Chief Secretaries of all states and Union territories asking them to assure redressal of migrant labourers grievan
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Instead of supporting labourers returning home, UP police and administrati
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 2 (ANI): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday said that Uttar Pradesh residents, who live and work in other parts of the country, have suffered the maximum at the hands of the state administration during the lockdown.
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No country attempted lockdown with huge migrant labour without arranging f
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday took a dig at the BJP-led government over the way the lockdown was enforced, saying no country with such a huge number of migrant labourers has attempted it without arranging for their stay and food.
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352 Indian migrant labourers working in Nepal kept at hostel
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Birgunj [Nepal], April 1 (ANI): Around 352 Indian migrant labourers working in Nepal's Birgunj have been kept at a hostel of Thakur Ram College.
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'Night shelters are full' says migrant worker in Delhi
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 1 (ANI): Several migrant workers and daily wage labourers were forced to wait outside the Sarvodaya Co-ed Senior Secondary School in Patparganj as they were told that the "shelter home is full", here on Tuesday.
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Two India's - one watching Ramayana, other fighting for survival: Kapil Si
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 1 (ANI): In an apparant reference to the situation of the migrant labourers across the country, Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Wednesday said that there are two types of people, one who are performing yoga and watching Ramayana while other, who are trying to rea
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