Volunteers dispersing food packages to the homeless in Patna on Saturday.|Photo Credit:
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200 noteworthy residents write to Centre to help out workers.
Feeding centres, treatment and sanitised transport services are required to offer instant relief to the lakhs of migrant workers stranded on roads, said an interest the Central federal government signed by 200 academics, economic experts, social activists, legal representatives, retired bureaucrats and worried residents The unexpected imposition of a 21- day lockdown, with just 4 hours notification, has actually had dreadful repercussions resulting in a humanitarian crisis, it said.
” This choice, taken without proper planning, entirely neglected the disastrous impact it would have on 90%of our labour force,” stated the appeal. “Much of them are stranded and starving in the commercial belts where they