-Press release by Right to Food Campaign dated 8th May, 2020 The Right to Food Campaign has issued a statement insisting the central and state governments to ensure that all labourers get free rations, Transport facilities and are treated with dignity. Please click here to access the statement issued by Right to Food Campaign insisting on free rations, Transport facility and dignity for stranded migrants. For more information, please contact the following...
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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 »Shramik Specials: railways say ‘sending States’ will have to pay ticket costs
-The Hindu It was up to the States to decide how to fund this cost, states the national Transporter. The railways on Monday said the “sending States” should pay them for Transporting migrant workers on Shramik Specials and it was up to them to decide how to fund this cost. “As per the guidelines issued, the sending State will pay the consolidated fare to Railways. Sending State may decide to bear this cost...
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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