The girl’s help assumes significance amid the distress faced by the migrants across the country with many of them walking hundreds of kilometres to reach their homes, and some dying due to accidents and fatigue during the arduous journey.
IndiaTVnews.com reached out to the International Labour Organisation to ask what they had to say about this ongoing migrant crisis in India. ILO's Director, Decent Work Team for South Asia, Dagmar Walter, shared some of her insights in the matter with us and suggested actions that can be taken to ease out the pain.
The DM expressed hope that these migrants who stayed back will contribute to the workforce needed to restart industrial units and can even work at construction sites.
The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) on Friday announced that no ticket fares will be charged from migrant labourers when buses are made available for dropping them at the city railway stations for their journey to their home states.
Union Minister for Law & Justice, Communications, Electronics & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday spoke to India TV during its special coverage #TeamModiOnIndia on the completion of one year of the Modi government 2.0.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Centre to ensure free travel to stranded migrants to their home states by trains and buses even as the Centre contended that it is taking “unprecedented steps” to mitigate the challenging crisis during COVID-19 lockdown.
After two months of hardship due to lockdown, ten migrant workers in Delhi will be back home tomorrow.
Madhya Pradesh Health Minister Narottam Mishra during Health Ministers conference on India TV on Wednesday said the doubling rate of coronavirus cases in the state is very low but we have a high recovery rate of 73 per cent.
Migrants are continuously lining up outside railway stations with a hope that they will finally reach their hometown.
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has completed the task of skill mapping of 14.75 lakh migrant workers who have returned to the state during lockdown. According to the official spokesman, the skill mapping of migrant workers will help in providing employment for them.
Congress is the real culprit behind the plight of the migrant workers: Mayawati
The first Nagaland-bound Shramik Special train from Chennai with 1,477 stranded people has reached the Dimapur railway station, an official said.
The analysis of the 1049 registration details of the vehicles revealed that 31 of them were registered as autos/three-wheelers, 69 of them as ambulances/school buses/trucks and there were no details available for 70 vehicles.
Huge crowd of migrant workers on Tuesday gathered at Delhi-Ghaziabad border aiming to reach their hometown after UP govt gave some relaxation in lockdown norms.
Huge crowd of migrant workers gathered outside the Bandra railway station in Mumbai earlier today to board a "Shramik special' train to Bihar.
Unprecedented scenes have been witnessed at Mumbai's Bandra Railway station after thousands of migrant labourers gathered at the station. As per initial reports, the migrants were informed that special trains will be running from the Bandra railway station for labourers.
Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has asked Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to provide 500 buses to facilitate migrants' travel from Noida and Ghaziabad.
The list of buses that have been sent by Congress party to Yogi Adityanath government to help migrants consist of two-wheelers, three-wheelers, and even 4-wheelers but such vehicles do not come under the bus category.
At least 9 labourers dead and several injured after a truck and a bus collided in Naugachhia, Bhagalpur. The truck in which the labourers were travelling, fell off the road following the collision. The rescue operation is underway.
Twenty migrant workers were injured when a mini-truck rammed into a truck in Ayodhya district on Monday morning.
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