-TheCitizen.in Their choice is simple: Either die of the pandemic or die of hunger MIGration - or mobility of the human race is not a new concept. Mostly MIGrants are economic MIGrants, searching for means to live or visualizing MIGration as a means to increase their income. When we analyse human MIGration theories, it is implicit that the future gains from income, is what that prompts MIGrants to stay back in the...
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This Centre is a collection centre -Anita Joshua
-The Telegraph MIGrant fiasco: Part II unfolds The decision to squeeze some money out of the mass movement of MIGrants blew up in the Centre’s face on Monday, prompting it to try and shift the blame to state governments. But the paper trail shows that states were asked to “collect the ticket fare” and hand over the amount to the Indian Railways. This is the second time the Narendra Modi government is finding...
More »BJP says 85% fare subsidy for special trains: Harping on a mere technicality? - Soumya Chatterjee
-TheNewsMinute.com MIGrant workers in many parts of the country are being made to pay Rs 1000 to Rs 1400 per head to return home. It’s the season for politics over train tickets, even as MIGrant workers across the country are confused, and struggling to reach home. The BJP on Monday claimed that the Indian Railways has subsidised 85% of ticket fare for special trains being run to transport MIGrant workers. It’s only...
More »No relief for the nowhere people -Ravi Srivastava
-The Hindu Policy responses to the MIGrant crisis reinforce the idea of two Indias Jamalo Makdam, 12, died on April 18 walking back from the chilli fields of Telangana to her home in Chhattisgarh. She and a group of other workers decided to return home on foot, as many MIGrant workers did, after losing their jobs, incomes and even accommodation following the announcement of a nationwide lockdown. Her journey ended in death,...
More »Congress will pay for rail travel of every needy MIGrant worker: Sonia Gandhi -Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
-Hindustan Times The Congress chief said the central government barely gave a four-hour notice of the lockdown, thus denying workers and MIGrant labourers the opportunity to return to their homes. Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday attacked the government for charging train tickets from MIGrant labourers going back to their homes and announced that her party will bear the cost for the rail travel of all such workers stranded due to the...
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