Control rooms for migrant workers reactivated
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Migrant workers at the Anand Vihar bus terminal to board buses, on the first day of the six days lockdown by Delhi Government in New Delhi on Tuesday. April 20, 2021.
| Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
The Union Labour and Employment Ministry on Tuesday reactivated the 20 control rooms it had set up in April 2020 to help migrant workers, in the wake of increasing COVID-19 cases and lockdowns announced by many States.
Labour and Employment Secretary Apurva Chandra said an order had been issued to restart the control rooms to help workers returning to their home States from cities, as had happened during the nationwide lockdown in March last year. He said officials of the Office of the Chief Labour Commissioner would be in charge of the control centres in various States.