SIPCOT worker Workers stranded in Tamil NaduNEW DELHI — The police acted promptly when a desperate plea for help by a group of workers stranded in a state-owned industrial estate outside Chennai circulated on social media last week. Workers said they had called the helpline numbers of the Tamil Nadu government and their home state governments several times to no avail. Misra, Tamil Nadu government’s officer in charge of inter-state people’s movement said his government’s first priority was patients, and travellers stranded en route in Tamil Nadu. The person answering the call said, “We have no information on trains from Tamil Nadu. The abandonment of migrant workers Tiphagne points to is not limited to Tamil Nadu.

Source: Huffington Post May 11, 2020 06:00 UTC