The Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren after evacuating migrant from Leh, airlifted 180 migrant workers from Andaman who were stuck there, CM on Saturday booked a flight for 180 migrant workers of the state in Andaman to bring them back to Ranchi.
The labourers were stranded in Andaman following the lockdown and had put forward their request to be brought back to their home state, understandably after they lost their work and were finding it tough to survive there.
CM Soren on Friday evacuated 60 workers from Leh who were stranded there and thus right after he airlifted migrant workers from Andaman.
The move comes a day after the apex court ruled that the state governments will have to ensure all help to migrant workers stranded in other states across the nation.
लेह के बाद अब अंडमान द्वीप समूह में फंसे झारखण्डवासियों की मदद!
मुख्यमंत्री @HemantSorenJMM जी के निर्देश पर सरकार द्वारा आज अंडमान के पोर्ट ब्लेयर एयरपोर्ट से 180 झारखण्डवासियों की हवाई मार्ग से घर वापसी हो रही है। सभी को सुखद और सुरक्षित यात्रा के लिए हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं। pic.twitter.com/tmVdKHOXvB— Office of Chief Minister, Jharkhand (@JharkhandCMO) May 30, 2020
With this move by Soren, Jharkhand becomes the first state to airlift 60 workers who will be bright from Batalik in Leh to Ranchi and after that 180 migrants from Andaman to Ranchi.
On May 10, the workers had reached out to the chief minister through Twitter following which the state government initiated a process to bring them back.
A letter was then sent to the central government for the permission of the flight but did not get any response from the Centre. A letter was then shot by Soren to Home Minister Amit Shah following up on the request to airlift workers from Ladakh, Andaman and North Eastern states.
According to reports, Soren personally monitored the whole exercise of airlifting the workers which cost the government around Rs. 8 Lakh.
A day after airlifting #MigrantWorkers from Leh, #Jharkhand govt is in the process to bring back 180 migrants from Andaman, as said by CM @HemantSorenJMM y'day. See the video of migrants checking in at Partblair. Flight will reach Ranchi in the evening, govt will bear Rs 21 lakh pic.twitter.com/NonfnmsNH3
— eNewsroom (@enewsroomindia) May 30, 2020
The Jharkhand chief minister has been at the forefront raising the issues of the safe return of migrant workers to the state.
Till now, around 4 Lakh of the total 7.5 Lakh registered workers have been brought back to states by various means.
