(PTI)Nearly 96 per cent of a sample of lockdown-hit migrant workers did not receive any dry rations while 70 per cent lacked knowledge of or access to the cooked meals distributed by local authorities, a study has found. The respondents included 3,992 workers stranded in Maharashtra, 3,000 in Karnataka and 1,618 in Uttar Pradesh. (PTI)All the states are offering cooked meals to the migrant workers stranded in their territories, and some have made provisions to supply them with dry rations too. “The Inter-State Migrant Workers Act and National Disaster Management Act require the states to register the migrant workers (working within their territories) so that in case of disaster they can be traced. On Tuesday, hundreds of desperate migrant workers had gathered on the streets in Mumbai and Surat, demanding they be allowed to go home.

Source: The Telegraph April 15, 2020 22:07 UTC