Labour department’s action plan for migrants comes handy as Kerala goes into lockdown
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May 08, 2021 11:00 IST
The plan submitted by the department for the wellbeing of the migrants and subsequently approved by the government envisaged three different scenarios of which one was a State-wide lockdown.
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Migrant labourers waiting for trains at the Kozhikode Railway Station on Monday to go back to their native places as Kerala is going into a near-lockdown mode from Tuesday; and right, people stocking up on vegetables and groceries at the Palayam market in Kozhikode.
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K. Ragesh
The plan submitted by the department for the wellbeing of the migrants and subsequently approved by the government envisaged three different scenarios of which one was a State-wide lockdown.
State Police Chief told to keep a close watch on migrant-intense regions
The decision of the State Labour Department to chalk out an action plan specifically for migrant workers has proved timely with a State-wide nine-day lockdown kicking in from Saturday.
The plan submitted by the department for the well-being of migrants and subsequently approved by the government envisaged three different scenarios, of which one was the lockdown. The other two possibilities were the controlled and uncontrolled spread of COVID-19 with no lockdown.
The department has asked the State Police Chief to keep a close watch on the migrant worker-intense Payipadu in Kottayam and Perumbavoor in Ernakulam during the lockdown. Instigated by misinformation campaigns by unscrupulous elements, migrant workers had hit the streets in large numbers in violation of norms during the lockdown last year. The action plan aims at avoiding a repeat of that scenario and wants the police to clamp down on any such campa