As the poll battle is poised to be tough and intriguing, each of the votes does carry its value. Parties in the fray are in no mood to take chances to ignore the worth of migrant workers’ votes in the upcoming twin polls.
Aspecial campaign will be held across the state in December by the state government to ensure last-mile enrolment of migrant workers, who have been left out.
Sri Lankan migrant workers remitted over $1.8 billion in the first four months of 2023, Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara said on Saturday.
Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday warned "whoever tries to spoil the law and order situation in the state, a strong legal action would be taken" following rumours that migrant workers are being attacked in the Tamil Nadu
Without safeguaring the interest of the migrant workers, it will be a futile excercise to think of any step to uplift any economic sector. A recent study has some stratling revelations.
The government, despite the much-touted claim of upgrading the skills of migrants to create employability scope in the State, has managed to identify less than two percent of total migrant returnees for skill mapping.
Out of Singapore's 58,341 total positive PCR tests to date, 93% have been among that migrant worker community.
The solution lies with the complete transformation of economic and administrative processes, practices and policies to enable rural India to face up to the issues that the coronavirus-induced reverse migration has thrown up
The rush to return from one of Odisha’s worst affected districts would normally have raised no cavil if the workers had not violated the stipulation that determines the inter-state border movement of labourers, notably the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979.
'The sad part is that the government does not care about the loss of lives,' he said.
