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Centre to implement Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act after 42 years

Migrant labourer Raja Kumar’s lockdown-induced miseries in successive years may have been less acute if the country’s governments had not sat on a 42-year-old legal provision that the Centre is now set to implement under a Supreme Court nod. Kumar, 25, who worked in Noida for a paltry Rs 225 a day, had to return home to Sameswari village in Bihar’s Banka district in April when work became unavailable amid the second wave of Covid. But the labour contractor who engages him did not give him a transport allowance. Advertisement “I had to borrow money to go home,” Kumar said.

Coronavirus outbreak: Migrants starve as state and Centre conflict over Onor

Guna Nayak, a migrant labourer in Delhi, says he will never forget the month of May when he and his wife often had to skip dinner. With the city in lockdown then, Nayak was confined to his one-room lodgings in Kotla Mubarakpur. He had no ration card entitling him to subsidised food. Advertisement Nor, fearful of catching Covid, would he join the free-meal queues at the Delhi government’s distribution centres. “We had limited rations and no money. Whoever I called for help had similar problems. My wife and I had to skip dinner some days,” Nayak said. Nayak, who is from Kendrapada district in Odisha, has begun getting work after the lockdown was lifted two weeks ago. But his efforts to secure a ration card from the Delhi government have not borne results.

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