New Delhi: Despite the Shramik Special trains in operation for last 15 days, various heart-wrenching incidents have come to light, depicting the hardships of migrant workers while they travel back home on foot. Many have taken to road to travel hundreds of kilometers on foot, to reach their native village.
Acting promptly on the issue, the Centre today launched an online dashboard to monitor and facilitate the smooth movement of migrant workers and their contact-tracing during lockdown across the country.
Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla has written to all states, asking the states to co-operate in making a central repository and thus help the sending as well as receiving state.
“This system will help in speedy communication between states without creating additional work at the level of the field officers.
“It has additional advantages like contact tracing, which may be useful in overall COVID response work,” he said.
Movement of migrant workers during lockdown has become a humanitarian crisis with thousands of them walking on roads and railways tracks ignoring government pleas to stay back at the place where they are.
How the online dashboard will work:
The Centre has asked the States to upload the details of migrants on an online dashboard that would help in speedy communication among them and aid in contact tracing.
A unique ID is generated for each migrant, which can be used for all transactions. The mobile numbers of people can be used for contact tracing and movement monitoring.
