Migrant employees travelling in a truck in Patna, to get to their home towns. Picture used for representational purposes only|Picture Credit: Ranjeet Kumar
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The court likewise needed to know the nature of help provided to such labourers by the Centre in addition to State federal governments and the number of beneficiaries.
It is absolutely nothing however a human catastrophe,” the Madras High Court has said and called for a report from the Centre on the number of migrant labourers who had actually passed away on their way to their house States throughout the nationwide lockdown to fight COVID-19
Justices N. Kirubakaran and R. Hemalatha also desired to know whether the Centre maintains any information relating to the number of migrant employees in every State and whether it was mindful of the number stranded in each State. The judges likewise wanted to understand the nature of support supplied to such labourers by the Centre as well as State federal governments and the number of beneficiaries.
