Coronavirus and loss of livelihood driving factors for the movement of stranded workers, says home ministry
Current Affairs : States and Union Territories (UTs) must guarantee that vagrant laborers don’t stroll on streets or railroad tracks to arrive at their goal, said the focal government on Tuesday.
The Union Home Ministry requested that states and UT work with the railroads and organize more trains to ship individuals, giving a Standard Operating Protocol (SOP) after media revealed nine transient workers had passed on in a truck and transport impact in Bhagalpur in Bihar on Tuesday morning.
Guarantee that “no transient laborer needs to fall back on strolling on streets or railroad tracks to arrive at his goal,” said the SOP.
Association Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, in his correspondence to states and UT, said the dread of the coronavirus and loss of employment are the primary driving variables for the development of abandoned laborers towards their homes. “So as to alleviate the trouble of transient specialists, I would be appreciative if the accompanying measures could be executed,” he said in a letter gave on Monday.
The home secretary proposed that increasingly exceptional trains ought to be orchestrated by star dynamic coordination between the states and the Ministry of Railways.
Aditi Mehta 