Ranchi: Head of the Minister of Hemant Soren on Thursday officially launched a superior campaign entitled safe and responsible for migration initiatives (SRMI) which mainly aims to prepare a holistic road map for a number of migrant workers to ensure overall and their well-being when they moved.
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Soren also announced that his government had decided to form a special corpus fund for migrant workers for helping migrant families who died in the case of their deaths outside the country.
The first campaign of the type was issued to prevent the rerun of the migrant crisis witnessed during the national lock since the Covid-19 outbreak in the country in March last year, he said.
Overcoming during the formal launch of SRMI in the project building, he said, “The key suggests the dark reality of unsafe migration.
For the state government, it is a new revelation to know that a large number of workers migrated to another place from here to work.
The migrant crisis also teaches To us the importance of ensuring safe migration so that in the case of accidents, government and other stakeholders must be in a position to expand assistance.
Learning from those experiences, we have decided to instill boilriouriial changes and make the right set-up for migration smoothly and Safe.
“Soren also recounted the hosts of the steps made by his government since the last locking exclusively for migrant workers.
The pilot project will be initially launched in three districts namely Dumka, Gumla and Singbhum Barat, said Secretary of the State Labor Department Prawin Kumar Toppo.
“Under SRMI, we want to initially work with the authorities in Ladakh and Kerala through different interventions,” he said, adding that the three selected districts have more migrants while traveling.
Minister of Manpower Department of Satyanand Bhokta, Secretary Chief Sukhdev Singh, among others, was present.
SRMI will be implemented by the State Labor Department and will be supported by the conglomeration of various institutions namely – Policy and Development Advisory Group, Hope Partners to Action Foundation, Migration Center and Inclusive Development and Bharti Institute of Public Policy in Indian Business Schools.
According to the SRMI policy document, it will be an 18-month project.
This will involve working to increase the increase in social security and welfare for migrant workers and their families, allowing registration of migrant workers for a better database, monitoring and analyzing their situation, and creating awareness among migrants in safe and responsible practices.
Johnson Topno, regional head for the Foundation Phia, said, “Pandemic and locking has had a major impact on migrant workers and their well-being.
It requires a systemic response to make their lives and work safer wherever they move.
SRMI is an initiative from the government and partners Consortium to have coordination and management of better migrant workers mobility and welfare.
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