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Work on database of migrant workers is slow, Supreme Court tells Centre -Krishnadas Rajagopal

-The Hindu

Top court says provision of food for labourers need not wait until completion of registration

The government’s delay in completing a national database to identify and register migrant workers across the country in order to provide them benefits in times of dire need stood out like a sore thumb in a Supreme Court hearing on Friday.

A Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and M.R. Shah acknowledged submissions made by advocate Prashant Bhushan that such a database would have made it easier for the government to identify and provide essentials like food and dry rations to stranded migrant labourers during the second wave of the pandemic.

“The direction [for the database] was issued by this court in 2018...Your process is very slow. We are not satisfied. We will pass orders on this,” Justice Bhushan addressed Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, for the Centre.

Mr. Bhushan, who represents activists seeking urgent measures to provide food and life support for migrant workers, said: “People are dying… 24 crore people have been pushed below the poverty line. The situation is worse than last year… Government has said they have not been able to even put up a portal for the registration of workers”.

The civil rights lawyer said many of these destitute workers require immediate cash transfers to purchase essentials. The pandemic has left them with no means of livelihood.

“A uniform national data grid of migrant workers, in which both the Centre and States provide inputs should be there. This would ensure that benefits meant for migrant workers reach them and no other,” Justice Bhushan said.

The court asked the government to clarify what steps it had taken under the Code of Social Security of 2020.

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