Tag: Migrant workers
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Video Story: Jharkhand sets example by evacuating its migrant workers from Ladakh
Ranchi: Since the lockdown began in India to break the Covid-19 chain, migrant workers have been at the receiving end. Hundreds of migrants died while walking or travelling on buses and trains to their homes. Witnessing the chaos, Jharkhand government led by Chief Minister Hemant Soren who had been alerted by Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha (JJM)…
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Migrant Family Starved Three Days At New Delhi Station
New Delhi: Caught in the nationwide lockdown without work or money, thousands of migrant workers are still stranded in different states despite the Indian Railways starting “Shramik Special” trains to take them home. Countless migrant families amid the confusion about transport have been walking to reach their native places in the blazing summer, most of them…
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Why only trains, we will bring migrants in chartered planes, give us the permission, Hemant Soren’s rebuttal to the railway minister
Ranchi: When the migrant special train from Telangana reached Hatia, Ranchi on May 2, Jharkhand became the first Indian state to receive a migrant special train amid lockdown. Since then over 60,000 migrants have arrived Jharkhand in 50 special trains. The state has issued No Objection Certificate (NOC) to 110 such trains. However, on May…
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Better late than never: Bringing back Odia migrant workers
Odisha government’s proactive steps in the ongoing nationwide lockdown for the containment of the outbreak of contagious virus Covid-19 has been applauded nationally, like the handling of cyclone Fani last year. The state successfully implemented its own action plan along with central government’s ‘complete lockdown’ guidelines, and has been working proactively round the clock to…
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We are working on our resources so that people do not migrate from Jharkhand in search of work – Hemant Soren
Ranchi: As the migrant workers from different parts of India are returning back to Jharkhand, its Chief Minister Hemant Soren has a clear vision about these workers – he will try his best to provide work to them within the state so that they don’t have to migrate to other states in search of work…
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21 Goldsmiths from Bengal stuck in Jeddah, send SOS to anti-trafficking body
Kolkata: A video of around 21 goldsmith workers from Jeddah Saudi Arabia pleading to the Indian government and activists to have them freed reached the inbox of the National Anti-Trafficking Committee (NATC), Kolkata Chapter on October 22, 2019. In a letter address to the chairperson of NATC, Nazrul Islam, a resident of Hooghly’s Dangapara village…
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Protest demanding the release of 7 Indians abducted in Afghanistan reaches Delhi
Delhi/Ranchi: Hundreds of people belonging to CPI-ML and student unions like AISA, INS and AICCTU led by former Bagoder MLA Vinod Singh demonstrated in front of the Ministry of External Affairs’ office in New Delhi. The protestors were demanding the release of the seven Indians abducted exactly a month back in Afghanistan. They all are…
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From a General Store Owner to being the Messiah of Indian migrant workers
Ranchi: On April 14, 2018, 10 migrant workers from India got stuck in Malaysia, sent an SOS to WhatsApp group meant for the migrant workers community, informing that they are being treated as bonded labours by the Malaysian Company that has hired them. The company had not just seized their passports but was also paying…
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Indian workers denied their due in Malaysia, left to stay at embassy’s labour cell in deplorable conditions for a month
Ranchi/Kolkata: At least 35 migrant workers from Bengal and nine from Jharkhand remain stranded in the Indian Embassy, Malaysia. Neither is the company that employed them paying their dues nor is the Indian Embassy officials persuading the company to clear their dues so that they can be sent back to India. Almost 11 months back, 44…