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NEW DELHI: A central online repository on migrant workers moving by Shramik Special trains and buses to reach their native places has been developed by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to facilitate their seamless movement across states and also help the sending and receiving states use the ‘National Migrant Information System (NMIS)’ dashboard for better coordination, movement monitoring and contact tracing.
In a letter sent to all chief secretaries on Saturday, home secretary Ajay Bhalla urged them to use the online portal NMIS for capturing the information on movement of migrants and for better inter-state coordination.
States can upload batch file of individual migrants’ data on the portal. As many states have already collected migrant data, this can be integrated through Application Programming Interface, Bhalla told the chief secretaries. The key data pertai