Amaravati: Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy held a review meeting on the progress of Agri Infra Fund projects and directed the officials to complete them in the stipulated time. During the review meeting held at the camp office here on Tuesday, the Chief Minister said the coordination between Village Secretariats and RBKs should be effective, and National Rural Employment
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], June 1 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday held a review meeting on the progress of Agri Infra Fund projects and directed the officials to complete them in the stipulated time.
Over 60,000 migrants have returned to villages in Karnataka
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Migrants returning to their native place from Bengaluru ahead of the COVID-19 lockdown.
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K. MURALI KUMAR Over 60,000 people who had migrated elsewhere have returned to their villages across the State in the past few weeks, as per the data collected by the task force established at the gram panchayat level. It has also identified 15,799 persons in rural areas as being in home isolation.
As many as 61,143 migrants have returned to their villages, said a note from the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department, which has set up the task force. The task force has been set up by the State to help the rural population, especially those returning to their villages.
A representative image: Migrant workers in Delhi. | Adnan Abidi/Reuters
For two years in a row, Covid-19 lockdowns have cost Santosh Das his job in Surat’s powerloom industry and forced him to return to his village in Odisha.
Both times, his journey home has been prefaced by death.
Last year, the man who died was another migrant worker from Odisha, who was beaten to death by the Surat police on May 14. He had been part of a group protest demanding police registration for tickets in the Shramik Special trains, so that desperate migrants stranded in the lockdown could return home. Das did not personally know him, but his death paved the way for his return.