Migrant Workers  

 To prevent migrant workers from returning to their home states due to the fear of a lockdown,  rice mill owners in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are offering them free lunches and vegetables and ACs 
 

Railway minister Piyush Goyal has lamented the uncooperative attitude exhibited by several states like West Bengal in not asking for more trains to get back their migrant labourers. It is also heartening to note that Indian railways has ferried more than 11.5 lakh migrant workers in the last fortnight.
 

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday allowed the use of special trains for movement of migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists, students and other people stranded at different places across the country amid lockdown due to COVID-19.

Delhi government cut electricity and water supply of migrant workers and told them that buses were waiting at the UP border which would ferry them home

Migrant workers are forced to walk long distances as transportation comes to a grinding halt, all thanks to the lockdown 

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced an economic package of Rs 1.7 lakh crore that will help the poor, migrant workers, farmers, widows, the specially-abled and construction labourers, under Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Yojana project

People usually use the Aadhaar card as one of the KYC (Know Your Customer) documents to open a new bank account because it can be used both as address and photo proof. There are many cases where people may have their address in Aadhaar and want to give a more functional address for KYC. It will help migrant workers who have the address of their native place in Aadhaar but want a bank account with their current address where they are living for work,’ the finance ministry said in a statement.

26 migrant workers from Nepal have registered in a literacy programme to learn Malayalam
 

The migrants in Kerala spend nearly one-third of their earning locally, which will be roughly Rs 10,000 crore per year. In the state, 18% of the migrant workers are skilled labours and 69% are unskilled labours. Dinesh Lal Yadav, also known as Nirahua, is now famous in a Kerala district thanks to migrants