Coronavirus: The centre has been operating particular “Shramik” trains for migrant staff
New Delhi:
The states will get 15 extra days to move migrants residence from the cities amid the coronavirus lockdown, the Supreme Court stated right now. Today’s listening to got here days after the Supreme Court took up the difficulty of stranded migrants by itself and handed a number of orders to the states to assist them attain residence.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, showing for the centre, stated the railways has run 4,228 particular “Shramik” trains until June three and brought 57 lakh individuals residence. He stated 41 lakh others have gone residence by highway, taking the total migrants who’ve left the cities to almost one crore.
Mr Mehta stated the utmost numbers of trains have gone to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. “We have on record a chart which shows how many workers are yet to be shifted and how many trains are required for it. The states have also prepared charts,” Mr Mehta stated.
A 3-judge bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and MR Shah identified that in response to the chart, Maharashtra has solely requested for one prepare.
“Yes,” the Solicitor General replied. “We have already run 802 trains from Maharashtra.”
“What we intend to do is we will give you and the states 15 days to transport all migrants. All states bring on record how they will provide employment and other kinds of relief. There should be registration of migrants,” the Supreme Court stated.
Advocate Colin Gonsalves, showing for migrants, stated the registration system is just not working, leaving 1000’s of migrant staff unable to register. “Two high courts have made observations on the registration system. It needs to be simplified,” Mr Gonsalves stated.
One by one a number of states learn out the information they’ve collected on migrants who’ve returned residence. Gujarat stated 20.50 lakh migrants have been despatched residence from the state; Maharashtra stated 11 lakh have left the state, whereas some 38,000 stay, and Delhi stated some two lakh migrant staff have stayed again within the nationwide capital.
The Uttar Pradesh authorities stated it hasn’t charged for the particular “Shramik” prepare tickets. Bihar stated 28 lakh have returned and the Nitish Kumar authorities has recognized 10 lakh migrants for doable employment.
West Bengal stated practically 4 lakh migrants are in camps and the state has been serving meals to round a lakh individuals. The different states that up to date the variety of migrant motion embrace Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka and Odisha.
Odisha stated it’s taking additional care as quite a lot of migrants are returning to their states by way of Odisha.
The centre allowed the particular “Shramik” trains to run over a month after the coronavirus lockdown was enforced in late March after 1000’s of migrants, operating low on meals and cash, began strolling residence a whole bunch of kilometres as public transport was banned.