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Home Ministry: State can use SDRF fund to provide food,shelter to migrant workers
On 25th March,Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced 21-days lockdown across the country.Due to lockdown daily wagers and migrants start moving towards their home,due to which large number of migrants come on roads so that they can reach their homes.To support these Migrants,central government on Saturday asked the state governments and Union Territory administrations to utilise the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF).According to the order issued by central government now state government and Union Territory administrations can utilise Rs.29000 crore State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) to provide food and shelter to migrant workers those are hit by 21-days lockdown.
To help the migrants in this difficult situation the central government had also asked the states and Union Territories To set up camps for migrants workers moving out of cities and carry out their health check-ups.Punya Salila Srivastava said,Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs aid that under State Disaster Response Fund Rs.29000 crore had been allocated to support all the migrant workers who had lost their jobs due to the lockdown and were forced to come on road to walk long distances to reach their homes.To get the migrant informed of the services being offered to them by,the state government and Union Territories state had been adviced to create awareness by using Public address systems,technology and by utilising the services of volunteers and NGOs.The state had been also adviced to give wide publicity and awareness regarding the information of the location of the relief camps,facilites being provided and relief package under Pradhan Mantri Kalyan Yojana.
The central goverment had asked the state to make arrangements to set up relief camps on highways by following the precation of social distancing.The government had also asked the state to identify and seperate coronavirus cases.State had been advised to set up facility of health check-up in every shelter to halt the novel coronavirus form spreading.Various states had also made transportation facilities so that the migrants can reach their homes.In Uttar Pradesh, the transport department had made arrangements to send around 3000 buses to Delhi to bring migrants workers back.These buses are advised to be sanitised properly and the driver and conductor of the buses are being provided with the masks and sanitizers.The Central government is taking every possible step to help and support those people who are hit by the 21-days lockdown.
