PTIMamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced “pocket money” from her government for migrant workers from Bengal stranded in other parts of the country so that they were able to eat during the lockdown after calling her Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray to thank him for the work by his administration. Mamata said local contacts in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Delhi would be used for the payment of the “pocket money”. “They have told me, they were given rice but had no money to buy vegetables or anything else to eat it with. Tens of thousands of such workers from Bengal remain stranded in 18 other states. Whatever we do get to know of, we will act on.”Her government has been taking care of over 2 lakh migrant workers from 16 states at 711 camps in Bengal.

Source: The Telegraph April 15, 2020 21:56 UTC