14 migrant workers stranded in Dubai, appeal to Jharkhand govt for safe returnFourteen migrant workers from Jharkhand are stranded in Dubai. They allege a private company has not paid their wages for three months. The...
02 Feb, 2026, 12.33 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee taking initiatives to bring back migrant labourers stranded in landslide-hit Wayanad: TMCWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is leading efforts to assist migrant laborers from West Bengal who are stranded in the landslide...
03 Aug, 2024, 05.46 PM IST
Open community kitchen, provide dry ration & facilitate transportation of migrant workers: SCPassing a slew of interim directions to ameliorate the miseries of migrant workers facing difficulties in wake of the recent surge in COVID...
13 May, 2021, 08.37 PM IST
Rs 42 lakh loss as some Shramik Specials ran empty: Maharashtra government to HCThe bench was hearing a petition filed by a city-based trade union body, Centre of Indian Trade Unions, raising concerns over the plight of...
05 Aug, 2020, 01.42 PM IST
Sonu Sood stopped at Bandra Terminus, not allowed to meet migrant workersThe migrant labourers were supposed to take the Shramik Special train to UP.
09 Jun, 2020, 03.08 PM IST
26 lakh migrant labourers stranded across 33 states: Preliminary govt dataThe data has been released after a strongly-worded directive from Central Information Commission (CIC) following a complaint by Right to In...
05 Jun, 2020, 08.04 AM IST
Make data on stranded migrant workers public: CIC to govtThe Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the government to make public data on migrant workers stranded in different parts of ...
01 Jun, 2020, 08.35 AM IST
Have brought back over 5 lakh migrant workers to MP: GovtAt least 3.52 lakh migrants have returned to MP by buses while 1.46 lakh others returned on 119 special trains, said the senior bureaucrat,...
23 May, 2020, 12.03 PM IST
Centre asks states to operate more special trains for migrant workersThe Home Ministry on Tuesday also issued a Standard Operating Protocol (SOP) for the movement of migrant workers by trains who are stranded...
19 May, 2020, 03.03 PM IST
Arrange transportation of 9.5k migrant workers to home states, will pay their fare: Delhi Congress to CM Arvind KejriwalDelhi Congress wrote to the chief minister and the Delhi government's chief secretary as well, expressing its readiness to pay for the trai...
09 May, 2020, 08.03 PM IST
Delhi government to pay for train travel of migrant workers stranded in city"Most of these states are yet to respond on the matter of bearing the travel costs of these stranded people. The Delhi government has taken...
08 May, 2020, 10.46 PM IST
Telangana to run 40 trains a day for one week to send migrant workers homeThese trains will start from various stations in the city, Warangal, Khammam and Ramagundam among other places, a release from Chief Minist...
05 May, 2020, 11.10 AM IST
Railways and States should arrange for free travel of stranded migrant workers: SCThe petitioners said that all the migrant workers who wish to go back to their hometown/villages, including those who are living in shelter...
04 May, 2020, 05.16 PM IST
First special train to Odisha carrying 1,150 migrants arrives in stateThe first 'Shramik Special' train to Odisha carrying around 1,150 migrant workers stranded in Kerala due to the lockdown arrived in Ganjam ...
03 May, 2020, 12.54 PM IST
Keep quarantine centres, shelter homes ready for 10 lakh migrant workers, UP CM tells officialsThe chief minister's office also put out the names, phone numbers and email addresses of nodal officers appointed by the state government t...
30 Apr, 2020, 09.53 PM IST
Odisha appoints senior IAS officers as COVID-19 observers in charge of districtsAhead of the arrival of about 5 lakh migrant workers stranded in different states due to lockdown imposed to contain COVID-19 pandemic, Odi...
27 Apr, 2020, 12.13 PM IST
Priyanka Gandhi urges UP govt to evolve plan to bring back migrant workersCongress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday called upon the Uttar Pradesh government to evolve a plan to help migrant workers from the ...
19 Apr, 2020, 02.55 PM IST