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Supreme Court asks states to send migrant workers back home within 15 days

Supreme Court asks states to send migrant workers back home within 15 days

| @indiablooms | 09 Jun 2020, 05:32 am

New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the states to identify the migrant workers stranded in different parts of the country due to anti-Covid-19 lockdown and send them back home within 15 days, media reports said.

The top court has also said all cases against the migrant workers must be dropped.

The Supreme Court has asked the Centre and states to prepare a list for the identification of the migrant workers. 

The verdict by a three-judge of Justices Ashok Bhushan, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and MR Shah came days after asking the states not to charge the ticket prices of trains and buses from the migrant workers. 

The railways will have to provide food and water to the migrant workers as long as they are on train, the top court had directed. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Mar 24 midnight announced the lockdown which was later extended four times with several relaxations in the later ones.

Ever since the lockdown commenced, plights of migrant workers were unmissable with several of them walking kilometers on road in a bid to reach their homes.

Amid the political pressure and the crisis of the migrant workers, the central government in May announced Shramik Special Trains to ferry the stranded labourers.

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