‘Send Remaining Migrant Workers Home In 15 Days'
Millennium Post Delhi|June 06, 2020
Supreme Court reserves order for Tuesday, may issue directions regarding relief measures to be undertaken for migrant workers
‘Send Remaining Migrant Workers Home In 15 Days'
NEW DELHI: After taking suo motu cognizance of the plight of migrant workers in light of the COVID-19 lockdown, the Supreme Court of India on Friday heard submissions made by the Centre and states/UTs on the number of migrant workers waiting to return home and observed that a period of 15 days would be optimal to send all the remaining workers back to their native places.

The top court took up the matter for hearing on Friday, days after it had berated the Central government for not being able to answer its questions of facilitation of food, water and other facilities for stranded migrant workers. Despite repeated questions on what is the exact number of migrant workers waiting to return home, Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta was unable to answer this on behalf of the Centre and had said, “States would be better able to estimate that.”

On Friday, a bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, SK Kaul and MR Shah reserved the order in the matter for Tuesday (June 9), saying that they would look into issuing directions that all remaining migrant workers be sent back home within 15 days.

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