On the 47th birthday, Sonu Sood took to his official Twitter account and announced as many as 3 Lakh jobs offers for the migrant workers as ongoing COVID-19 crisis has left millions of Indians jobless. The free website and app, named 'Pravasi Rojgar', will digitally connect job providers with the job seekers.
Sonu Sood took the risk to come to the forefront and provide a helping hand to migrant labourers who were affected by the COVID-19 situation. And now it seems that he has moved one step ahead as on his birthday he took to his social media and announced as many as 3 Lakh job offers for the migrant workers who in the difficult times also lost their jobs.
Few Sikh families who migrated from Afghanistan to India demand citizenship. Most of the families claim that they came to India in 1990s and since then they have to keep renewing their visas to stay in India.
As many as 13 migrant workers who came to their native village in West Bengal's Bankura district were denied entry at the quarantine centre by the locals.
A picture of an Odisha migrant worker went viral on the internet as he named his welding shop after Sonu Sood. Prashant Kumar Pradhan, whom the actor had airlifted from Kerala, opened up a welding shop and named it - Sonu Sood Welding Shop.
Sonu Sood said, 'Seeing the smiles on their faces, the tears of happiness in their eyes has been the most special experience of my life.'
The HRD Ministry on Tuesday issued guidelines to states and union territories regarding education of migrant workers' children who have returned home during the COVID-19 pandemic, asking them to ensure that their names are not struck off the school rolls.
Former Union Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal penned a letter to the Railways Ministry asking for special trains for return of migrant labourers who went to their hometowns during COVID-induced lockdown.
As part of the scheme, existing vacant government funded housing complexes will be converted in Affordable Rental Housing Complexes through Concession Agreements for 25 years.
The migrant labourers are returning back to big cities in search of work after nearly three months of lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic.
Amid COVID-19 pandemic, Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is providing jobs to the people in different types of ongoing projects in far-flung hilly area of Rajouri district.
A 34-year-old Singaporean man, who posted offensive Tweets against Indian migrants, has been charged in court over stoking racial tensions. Zainal Abidin Shaiful Bahari was handed four charges, all relating to committing acts promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion or race and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony, reported Channel News Asia.
Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Hemant Soren commented over the migrant food grain scheme under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY).
Ahead of her birthday on July 9, Elnaaz Norouzi will raise money to help feed six to seven thousand families of Indian migrant workers.
Criticising the TMC dispensation in West Bengal for allegedly opposing pro-people policies of the Centre, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said the state could not be made a beneficiary of the 'Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan', as it had not provided any data on migrant labourers.
On June 28, in an exclusive interview with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Asian New International (ANI) Editor Smita Prakash held conversation on several key issues amid COVID-19 situation in the country.
PM Modi had told all CMs to run buses to ferry migrants travelling on foot to nearest railway stations. Till now, 1cr 20 lakh people ferried across the nation: Amit Shah
The Indian Railways will be providing 8-lakh man-days of employment opportunities to migrants workers in the next 125 days till October 31 under government's Garib Kalyan Rojgar Yojana Abhiyaan (GKRYA), announced Railways Minister Piyush Goyal. These new jobs will be generated in the infrastructure sector of the railways with an investment of Rs 1800 crore.
One person was killed and 20 others were injured, when a Bihar-bound bus carrying migrants from Puducherry hit a truck in Odisha's Balasore district on Wednesday, a senior police officer said.
Over 8,900 labourers arrived in Pune in last few days and the labour department is monitoring the movement of migrant workers who are returning to the city
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