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Migrant labourers in Chandigarh bear the brunt of lockdown
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): It would be better to die from the disease than dying of hunger, said Sanjay Kumar, a migrant worker, stranded here due to the nationwide lockdown imposed in the wake of coronavirus threat.
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Centre have no contingency plans for mass exodus : Rahul Gandhi
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday slammed Centre alleging that it has no contingency plan in place for the migrants who are leaving big cities in the backdrop of COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent lockdown.
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States to provide relief to migrant labourers using SDRF funds: Amit Shah
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that all the States have been directed to provide temporary accommodation, food, medical care and other necessary facilities to migrant labourers during the nationwide lockdown using SDRF's funds.
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Haryana CM directs officials to ensure medical, shelter arrangements for m
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Taking a step further towards ensuring to contain the spread of coronavirus in the State, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has directed the officers of district administrations to make appropriate arrangements for setting up of camps to p
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MHA directs States, UTs to provide shelter, food to migrant workers under
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Ministry of Home Affairs on Saturday directed States and Union Territories (UTs) to provide accommodation, food, clothing and medical care to homeless people, including migrant labourers who are stranded due to 21-day nationwide lockdown.
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Delhi Police distributes food, essential commodities during lockdown
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 28 (ANI): While the migrant labourers and daily wage workers are facing many problems due to paucity of jobs in the national capital owing to the nationwide lockdown, the Delhi Police has started distributing food, water, and medicines at multiple locations to them in
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'Walking for three days and yet miles to go before we can reach home'
Updated : 5 years, 11 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 : 5 years, 11 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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CPI leader writes to PM, seeks transport for migrant workers
Updated : 5 years, 11 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 : 5 years, 11 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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'No option but to walk home': Group of labourers set on 300km journey amid
Updated : 5 years, 11 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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Companies should take care of migrant labourers at their construction site
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana), Mar 26 (ANI): Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) KT Rama Rao on Thursday said that he has instructed the construction and infrastructure companies to take care of the migrant labourers who are working at their sites.
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