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SC order on migrant workers is disappointing, surprising: Brinda Karat
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat on Friday said that the Supreme Court's order stating that no travel fare would be charged from migrant workers for their travel back home amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown is disappointing and surpri
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Over 250 migrants head home on Shramik trains from Poonch
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Poonch (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], May 29 (ANI): More than 250 migrant workers have left Poonch district for their home district in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday amid the coronavirus lockdown.
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BSP welcomes SC's order on stranded migrants not being charged for travel
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court's order that no travel fare would be charged from migrant workers for their travel back home amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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MP Govt creates 'Rojgar Setu Yojana' to employ migrant workers
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 29 (ANI): The State Government has created 'Rojgar Setu Yojana' to employ migrant workers, who have come back to the State from other states amid coronavirus-induced lockdown, said Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday.
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Woman travelling in Shramik train goes into labour, gives birth to girl
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], May 28 (ANI): A woman travelling in Shramik Special train went into labour on Wednesday evening forcing the train to halt at Sirari Railway station on Keul-Gaya line.
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Punjab CM hails 'Moga boy Sonu Sood' for helping migrant workers in crisis
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): Calling Bollywood actor Sonu Sood as 'our Moga Boy,' Chief Minister of Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday lauded the actor for arranging hassle-free transportation and food for migrant labourers and help them reach their native places.
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Migrants allege authorities forced them to travel in overcrowded tempos in
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 28 (ANI): The migrant workers stranded here have complained that while transporting them to railway stations, the State authorities forced them to sit in large numbers in tempos, which led to the violation of social distancing norms.
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Thousands of migrant workers gather in Dharavi hoping to catch a ride back
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 28 (ANI): Thousands of stranded migrant workers gathered in the Dharavi area of Mumbai on Thursday flouting social distancing norms hoping to catch a ride back home amid the ongoing coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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Bihar: FIR against 9 migrants for complaining of poor facility at quaranti
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Madhepura (Bihar) [India], May 28 (ANI): At least nine migrant labourers, who peddled, hitchhiked and walked from as far as Punjab to reach home during the ongoing COVID-19 induced lockdown, have been booked and are facing arrest for complaining of no facilities at a quarantine centre in Bih
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Will continue efforts until all migrant workers are back home: Centre tell
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): The Central government on Thursday submitted before the Supreme Court that it will not stop its efforts until all the migrant labourers, stranded across the country amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown, are sent back to their homes.
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Take migrant workers walking home to shelters, provide food, basic facilit
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday directed that the migrant workers found walking home should immediately be taken to shelters and should be provided with food and all other basic facilities.
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Rahul Gandhi demands measures for welfare of poor, migrant workers and rev
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday raised a set of four demands from the Centre for the welfare of poor people, migrant workers, and revival of small and medium enterprises (SME).
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