The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre and the governments of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to provide free rations to migrant workers stranded in the National Capital Region without insisting on identity proof, and arrange transport for those migrants who want to return home.
The bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and M.R. Shah said these governments must also open community kitchens and serve two free meals a day to the migrant workers and their families.
The directives came on an application from a group of social activists that sought to avert a rerun of the misery that migrant workers stranded by the first wave of Covid had to endure last year.