Help desk launched for migrant workers at Erode Railway Junction
Updated:
Updated:
Share Article
AAA
A help desk for migrant workers that started functioning at Erode Railway Junction in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.
| Photo Credit: GOVARTHAN M
With migrant workers in the district heading towards their native States, a help desk where volunteers fill-up the railway reservation forms and listen to the grievances of the workers, started functioning round-the-clock at Erode Railway Junction on Wednesday.
Run by the Rights Education and Development Centre (READ), an NGO based at Sathyamangalam, the desk is manned by three volunteers, who can read and write in Hindi. There are about 1.25 lakh workers from various States working in industries at SIPCOT, Perundurai, textile processing units and involved in other activities in the district. With spike in COVID-19 cases and fear of lockdown, workers started returning to their native through trains from the district in the past two weeks.