Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has urged the centre to run special trains for the stranded migrant workers and labourers in the state and has asked that the guidelines in this regard be issued by April end.
The Maharashtra Chief Minister placed these demands before the Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) in a meeting via video conference. In a surprise, the centre on Tuesday deputed two teams to inspect the implementation of lockdown measures in Mumbai and Pune.
After inspecting the Maharashtra government’s efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, the inter-ministerial teams will issue necessary directions to the state and submit reports to the Centre. The centre has designated six inter-ministerial teams - two each for Maharashtra and West Bengal and one each for Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
The reason to constitute such teams was taken in the view of the increasing cases in cities like Mumbai and Pune as they have become the hotbeds for the coronavirus outbreak.
“If the Central Government is anticipating a rise in the transmission of the virus between April 30 and May 15, then it must consider if it can utilise the time at hand to arrange for special trains to send them back home and issue guidelines about this by April-end (sic),” the official handle of CMO Maharashtra tweeted Uddhav Thackeray as saying.
In the meeting, Thackeray reiterated his demand to the centre for initiating special trains to ensure that migrant labourers from other states can return to their native place.
The Chief Minister further informed that the approximately six lakh migrant workers and labourers are being provided with food, shelter and medical assistance in the relief camps set up across Maharashtra. However, in such times saying away from their homes and families is taking a toll on them, he added.
The Maharashtra government has welcomed the centre’s decision to constitute two inter-ministerial central teams to assess the state’s response to COVID-19 outbreak, especially in Mumbai and Pune.
This was done after there were complaints about the implementation of lockdown measures. Reacting to this, the senior bureaucrats expressed surprise and said that adequate measures were taken.
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