Congress, Left parties seek relief for workers
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The Left parties wrote to Chief Minster Arvind Kejriwal on Monday asking him to contemplate restarting final yr’s schemes of direct money transfers, distribution of 35 kg free foodgrains and neighborhood kitchens/meals distribution to needy households in addition to migrant workers.
The parties the measures would stop the mass exodus of migrant workers that was witnessed in Delhi final yr after the nationwide lockdown was introduced.
The parties additionally urged the necessity to prepared giant quarantine services by the State authorities as Delhi’s JJ clusters, unauthorised colonies and different high-density working class areas could be needing it on an pressing foundation to forestall unfold of this lethal virus. It additionally requested the federal government to make sure that all each day wage earners are vaccinated as they don’t come below the purview of “work from home”.
The parties additionally assured that they might cooperate with the State authorities in preventing the pandemic.
‘Ineffective tactics’
The Delhi Congress, in the meantime, identified that Mr. Kejriwal was interesting to migrant workers to not go away the Capital in the course of the week-long lockdown, with out saying any financial relief package deal for them.
The celebration questioned as to how Mr. Kejriwal anticipated them to remain in Delhi with out jobs. “Migrant workers cannot afford any kind of treatment without income. Delhi hospitals are bursting at their seams with COVID-19 patients. They have nowhere to go if they fall ill,” the celebration mentioned.
Delhi Congress chief Ch. Anil Kumar mentioned the Delhi authorities’s “ineffective tactics” to battle the pandemic have been uncovered as labourers have began to depart the town as soon as once more after the lockdown was introduced.
The celebration reiterated its demand for an all-party assembly to type a technique to take care of the COVID scenario. It mentioned if the federal government was not keen to name such a gathering, then the L-G ought to.
The celebration additionally requested is workers to donate plasma and mentioned a listing of donors is being finalised.
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