Assam to provide job cards to returnee migrants

Guwahati: Assam has decided to provide job cards to returnee migrants to facilitate their engagement in the MGNREGA.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal discussed the issues of providing employment opportunities to the state's people returning from outside.Chief Minister directed the Panchayat and rural development department to allot job cards to returning migrant workers and provide them works under MGNREGA at the earliest.

The Chief Minister also directed the Skill Development Department to take steps for imparting training to returning workers for upgrading their skills. He issued instruction to identify skills of the returning labourers and provide training at development block level through a digital platform.


Sonowal asked the Industries Department to prepare district wise list of MSMEs for providing benefits to the sector under Rs 20 lakh crore economic package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

He instructed the Finance Department to discuss with the banks about ways to provide bank loans to returning labourers for engaging them in productive sectors.