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Citizens dying of hunger, says Supreme Court -R Balaji

-The Telegraph

SC asks Centre and states to reach out to farmers and migrants who form the country’s backbone

The Supreme Court on Thursday said no person should die of hunger “but that is happening, citizens are dying of hunger,” asking the Centre and the states to reach out to farmers and migrants who form the country’s backbone.

“In a welfare society, in our country, two persons are most important — farmers and migrant labourers. Migrants play an important role in building the nation. They cannot be ignored at all,” a bench of Justices M.R. Shah and B.V. Nagarathna told additional solicitor-general K.M. Natraj during a hearing.

“If the needy cannot reach the well, the well has to go to the needy and thirsty people,” Justice Nagarathna remarked while directing both the Centre and the states and Union Territories to register migrants with the e-SHRAM portal so they can partake of government benefits.

The bench observed that the purpose of registration was to facilitate access to welfare schemes and asked the Centre to place before it the data on migrant workers that emerge during the enrolment process.

The court said that if those who are registered do not possess ration cards, the government must immediately make arrangements to provide them food grains at subsidised rates.

“Ultimately in India no citizen should die of hunger. But that is happening, citizens are dying of hunger,” Justice Nagarathna observed. “In villages, they tie their stomach tightly with clothes, drink water and sleep. They tie it so tightly to kill hunger.”

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