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NEW DELHI: Determined to prevent re-run of the pitiable situation for migrant workers during Covid lockdowns last year, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre and states to provide dry ration or cooked food to migrant workers "wherever stranded in the country". Resorting to continuous mandamus doctrine in a suo motu case initiated last year under the caption "Problems and Miseries of Migrant Workers", a bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and M R Shah said, "We direct that migrant workers...

New Delhi [India], May 24 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday passed a slew of directions in connection with the Suo Motu matter involving the miseries and the problems faced by the migrant labourers and workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.