In a parallel relief measure, the government has allowed the sale of 5-kg FTL cylinders without requiring address proof. Beneficiaries can now obtain these cylinders from authorised distributors by presenting a valid identity card.
Three migrant labourers from West Bengal — two from Birbhum district and one from East Burdwan — have been detained in Gujarat on suspicion of being illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
CM Stalin stated that the rumours of 'attack' on migrant labourers started spreading a day after he spoke about the need for a united national-level alliance against the BJP
The labourers, including nine minors, were being taken to toil in brick kilns near Hyderabad city when the police intercepted the vehicle in which they boarded and rescued them from a labour trap.
The top court directed all state governments to implement the one nation one ration card scheme, which allows migrant workers to avail ration benefits from any part of the country,
India, a modern-day bourgeois democracy with socialism sitting uncomfortably in the Preamble, neither faces a civil war nor an invasion of states. Its problems are self-generated. The twin blades of economic and political crisis have been self sharpened by the government on the whetstones of indifferent governance, communalism, and neo-liberal capitalism.
She was the 'Special Resident Commissioner' of Bihar during the Corona lockdown effectively tackling the concerns of migrant labourers of Bihar stranded in various Indian states after the nationwide lockdown.
The government must strive for a golden mean in recasting Indias labour laws, argues Sukanya Singha.
Thakur said the scheme would help the consumers, especially migrant labourers to take ration from any fair price shop in the country and this would be done through National Portability Scheme of Ration Card.
Most of these labourers are from Bihar and they wanted to go to their respective villages crossing UP but they were stopped by the Police at the border and kept in a shelter home of Radha Swami Satsang Beas on Ambala Road in Saharanpur until further arrangement for their journey could be made in view of the recent order of the UP government.
