{"id":321584,"date":"2020-03-28T12:52:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T12:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321584"},"modified":"2020-04-06T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T10:38:11","slug":"government-commits-all-support-to-migrant-workers-during-lockdown-period-amit-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/government-commits-all-support-to-migrant-workers-during-lockdown-period-amit-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"Government commits all support to migrant workers during lockdown period: Amit Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-310968 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/amit-shah.....jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/amit-shah.....jpg 555w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/amit-shah....-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/>As per the directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Government has committed all support to Migrant Workers during lockdown period, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday while reviewing the country&#8217;s preparedness to contain the spread of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWith the intent of Modi Government to provide all possible support to migrant workers, the Union Home Secretary has again written to States requesting them to immediately set up Relief Camps for migrant workers\/pilgrims etc who are returning to their domicile states or trying to do so during this lockdown period,\u201d according to Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">States have been advised to give wide publicity and awareness, using public address systems, technology and by utilising the services of volunteers and NGOs, to precise information on:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(i)\u00a0The location of the relief camps and the facilities being made available,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(ii)\u00a0Relief package under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana and measures being taken by the State Government Administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cStates have been also advised to set up Relief Camps along the Highways for people moving on highways, including setting up of tented accommodation to ensure that these persons will stay in the relief camps till the lockdown orders are in place. The shelters are to be organised, keeping in view various precautions including social distancing, with adequate Medical check up drives to identify and separate cases requiring quarantine or hospitalization, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">MHA has also authorised all States to use the State Disaster Response Fund for providing such relief measures. These measures would further strengthen them to deal with this issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per the directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Government has committed all support to Migrant Workers during lockdown period, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday while reviewing the country&#8217;s preparedness to contain the spread of COVID-19. \u201cWith the intent of Modi Government to provide all possible support to migrant workers, the Union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[1194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321585,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321584\/revisions\/321585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}