Maha govt will let migrant workers return, but respective states not ready to take them back: Congress' Naseem Khan
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A veteran leader of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress, Mohammed Arif Naseem Khan, on Wednesday, said that the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra state government has allowed and is willing to send migrant workers stranded in Maharashtra to return to their native states, but the Chief Minister of the respective states is not ready to accept these people.
A leaflet was released by Naseem Khan's office on Wednesday. In this, the Congress leader cited the incident on Tuesday in the Bandra Railway station area in Mumbai where a group of migrant workers protested with the demand that they be sent back to their native states amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-necessitated nationwide lockdown that has rendered most of them jobless. The workers had requested the state government to allow them to go to their hometowns.
Naseem Khan said that he had discussed the issue of the migrant workers stranded in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and other adjoining areas with other senior leaders of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadhi government in the state and was of the opinion that the workers be allowed to leave for their respective hometowns. However, the Chief Minister of these respective states were not ready to accept the workers, Khan said.
"All ministers with whom I discussed the problems of migrant workers told me that the Maharashtra government was ready to send them back (to their respective states).
"But the chief ministers of the states the migrant workers belong to were not ready to take them back," the former state minister claimed.
As the central government has extended the lockdown period, there has been a huge upheaval in front of migrant workers, most of who have been rendered jobless. Lockdowns have hampered their employment. Also, they have no place to stay. Due to the lack of sufficient money and food, many of them have come to starve. Naseem Khan said that the state government is doing all it can to help arrange food and shelter for these migrants, however, it will be difficult to do so if this continues for another fortnight.
Khan said the Centre should intervene and find a solution to the problem of these migrants who number around 20 lakh in the MMR area, highlighting that Maharashtra ministers Aaditya Thackeray and Ashok Chavanhad had also earlier spoken about sending the migrant labourers back to their states.
As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis exacerbates in India, the central government on Wednesday earmarked 170 districts as hotspots in the 'Red Zone' with the aim to adopt stricter lockdown measures in these regions for checking the pandemic outbreak in its tracks. The Red Zone hotspots are essentially the regions that have reported a significant number of positive cases, contributing more than 80% of cases in India with doubling rate of less than four days.
Meanwhile, 207 non-hotspot districts ith clusters and non-infected districts have also been classified as 'Green Zone'.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has also stated that there is no community transmission of India so far, adding that the chain of transmission of coronavirus can be broken successfully if no case is reported for 28 days from a particular area.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on Tuesday morning announced the extension of the countrywide lockdown till May 3.
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