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Uttar Pradesh government to set up migration commission to help find jobs for workers returning from different States
Uttar Pradesh government has decided to set up a migration commission to help find jobs for migrant workers who are returning home.
Uttar Pradesh government has decided to set up a migration commission to help find jobs for migrant workers who are returning home. Additional Chief Secretary (Home and Information) Awanish Awasthi announced the plan to set up a migrants commission and said any state that wants labourers from UP has to seek its permission.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also said that other states will need permission from the UP government if they want to make use of labourers from Uttar Pradesh. About 25 lakh migrants, workers and their families have returned to Uttar Pradesh after being stranded for weeks in other states due to the lockdown imposed to fight coronavirus.
At a meeting with senior officials, Chief Minister reiterated that his government is committed to a safe and respectable homecoming of workers and to provide them with jobs and social security. He said this was the reason for the decision on a separate commission for them and told officials to take prompt steps for setting it up. The planned commission will look into workers' rights, prevent their exploitation and provide an official framework to ensure socio-economic and legal support for them.
Chief Minister said insurance, social security, re-employment assistance, provision for unemployment allowance are some of the factors that will be looked into by the commission.
Adityanath had claimed that UP's workers were "not properly taken care of" by various states during the coronavirus lockdown. "These workers are our biggest resource and we will give them employment in Uttar Pradesh as the state government is going to set up a panel for their employment," he recently said.
According to an official spokesperson, the Adityanath government will make manpower available to other states only on a guarantee of job security.
The state government said skill mapping of about 14.75 migrant workers has already been done. Of them, 1.51 lakh were employed in the real estate sector.
