CHANDIGARH: A research on Punjab’s migrant labor crises throughout the Covid-19 lockdown has suggested that a compensation of Rs 10,000 a month each migrant household by the Punjab government to its lockdown period of 2020 and additionally for the present lockdown enforced to control the next wave. According to the study, conducted by the economics professor of Punjabi University, Patiala, Lakhwinder Singh, in light of the tragedy faced by migrant labourers throughout the pandemic and at ordinary times, there’s an urgent requirement to frame an extensive public policy to guarantee adequate job and upward mobility of their migrant work force. A great number of researchers confronted distress during the initial lockdown that lasted over 68 days, says that the analysis. At the first phase, researchers and their relatives went back house using their very own meagre transportation facilities like bike and barefoot. Some perished on the way as a result of shortage of water and food along with other agricultural facilities. Even though the Punjab government has promised that the migrants’ traveling back home, while still hiring trains and buses, has been supported and compensated from its own origins, the analysis states,”The help of the Punjab government has stayed critical but it had been too late and too small in comparison to the participation of the migrant labor into the economy of this nation.” Concluding the upward mobility of labour force is rather restricted at Punjab, the analysis also advised that in case the state authorities would love to draw full advantages of the young migrant work force working in metropolitan areas, it ought to provide both education and abilities keeping in light of the emerging labour opportunities. In addition, it emphasised the feminine migrant workforce ought to be imparted two-pronged literacies — instruction and abilities, and monetary — so they are spared from dual manipulation and empowered and guaranteed upward mobility. “The resolution of removal in practice and theory won’t just have a lasting effect on the migrant labour but it is going to benefit the smooth transition of the market in the very low degree of financial balance to self-sustained financial advancement,” Prof Singh explained.