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SC asks Delhi, UP, Haryana to provide dry ration, meals to stranded migran
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday, issuing a slew of directions relating to migrants workers stranded in NCR due to COVID-19 lockdown, ordered Delhi, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh govrenments (for districts included in the NCR) to provide dry ration, open community
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Plea in SC seeks extension of Atma Nirbhar Scheme for dry ration to strand
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the central government to extend the provision of dry rations to stranded migrant workers for at least one year under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan scheme.
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Too little too late: Brinda Karat on Supreme Court order on migrant worker
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 9 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat on Tuesday expressed her dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court order on the plight of stranded migrant workers saying its efforts are too little too late.
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Identify stranded migrant workers, send them home within 15 days: SC to St
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 9 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed States and Union Territories to identify stranded migrant workers across the country willing to go back to their native places and transport them home within a period of 15 days.
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Jharkhand to airlift stranded migrant labourers from Leh
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], June 7 (ANI): Jharkhand government will airlift 115 stranded migrant workers from Nubra Valley, Diskit and Chunthug valley on Monday (June 8) and Tuesday (June 9), officials from the Chief Minister's office said.
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After helping migrant labourers, Sonu Sood now airlifts 177 women stuck in
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): After helping thousands of stranded migrant workers reach their native places, Bollywood actor Sonu Sood has now airlifted a total of 177 women stuck in Kerala's Ernakulam amid the nationwide lockdown.
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Jharkhand govt to airlift 60 migrant workers from Leh today
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], May 29 (ANI): The Jharkhand government will airlift 60 stranded migrant workers from Batalik in Leh on Friday, officials from the Chief Minister's office said. These migrant labourers were working on a Border Road Organisation (BRO) project in the area.
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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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241,000 migrant labourers sent back from Delhi, says Manish Sisodia
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 26 (ANI): Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday said that 241,000 stranded migrant workers in the national capital have been sent back to their home towns through 196 special trains since May 7.
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J-K sends over 13,000 stranded migrant workers to native states
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], May 23 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Government has so far sent back 13,120 migrant workers stranded in different parts of the Union Territory in special trains from Katra.
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Buses provided by Congress unfit for transporting migrant workers: UP Depu
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 20 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma on Wednesday lashed out at Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over the issue of buses arranged by the Congress for stranded migrant workers, saying it is for a "political stunt."
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MHA issues revised SOP on movement of stranded migrant workers
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday issued a revised Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on the movement of stranded workers by trains during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown.
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