Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has set up 262 relief camps to provide migrant workers and labourers with essentials including food and shelter. The relief caps will provide shelter to the 70,399 migrant labourers and workers who are stranded due to the nationwide lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Chief Minister Thackeray held a corona control room meeting with district collectors and other concerned state government officials while directing them and divisional commissioners to keep a watch over the movement of the migrants.
“Maharashtra government has set up 262 relief camps across the state, which is presently providing shelter to 70,399 migrant labourers and homeless people to ensure that they have food and shelter in this crisis,” Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray was quoted in media reports as saying.In Maharashtra, the number of cases for the coronavirus or COVID-19 has increased to 332 while the death toll is 12. In Mumbai, the number soared up to 167.
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