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ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021
UPDATED: April 27, 2021 21:17 IST
Migrant workers arriving from Maharashtra rest outside Patna junction railway station, Aoril 10, 2021
For over a fortnight now, 24-year-old Chander Kumar from Bihar’s Bahadurpur village has been living with a sense of déjà vu in his one-room shack in Delhi’s Chhatarpur area. His smartphone has been flashing constant updates on Covid-19 cases in the national capital where he works as a domestic help. He is in two minds, and despite chief minister Arvind Kejriwal requesting them not to leave the city, Kumar and his friends are worried about the week-long lockdown announced on April 20 in the national capital.
ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021
UPDATED: April 24, 2021 12:57 IST
Migrant workers arriving from Maharashtra rest outside Patna junction railway station, Aoril 10, 2021
For over a fortnight now, 24-year-old Chander Kumar from Bihar’s Bahadurpur village has been living with a sense of déjà vu in his one-room shack in Delhi’s Chhatarpur area. His smartphone has been flashing constant updates on Covid-19 cases in the national capital where he works as a domestic help. He is in two minds, and despite chief minister Arvind Kejriwal requesting them not to leave the city, Kumar and his friends are worried about the week-long lockdown announced on April 20 in the national capital.
Garib Kalyan plan: No migrants completed training, says Parliamentary panel report
Announced the scheme in June last year, the government had targeted to cover nearly three lakh labourers. However, nearly 86,000 workers could be enrolled till February this year.
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People wearing masks stand in a queue for a train at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in Mumbai. (Photo | AP)
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NEW DELHI: Not a single migrant worker has completed skill training under the ‘Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan’, a government’s employment-cum-rural public works initiative to tackle the impact of Covid-19 on labourers in India, according to a Parliamentary Standing Committee report.
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Published: Friday, January 29, 2021, 13:22 [IST]
New Delhi, Jan 29: This joint sitting of Parliament which is being held during the time of the Coronavirus pandemic has great significance. It is the beginning of a new year and a new decade. We will also be entering the 75th year of India s independence this year. All the Members of Parliament present here today embody the conviction held by every Indian that the toughest of challenges will deter neither us nor India.
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