Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Modi on the subject (Archive)
New Delhi:
Congressman Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asking him to incorporate West Bengal under the “Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan”.
“Let me draw your attention to the fact that Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan, which includes 116 districts in six states, has already been announced and the program will continue for 125 days supposedly to provide livelihoods to returning migrant workers,” Chowdhury said.
“The criteria of this program is established to incorporate those districts where the population of migrant workers is supposed to be a minimum of twenty-five thousand people who were forced to return to their native villages after the closure,” he added.
The congressional leader said that in West Bengal “thousands of migrant workers have returned to their native villages due to the closure and have since been left without work, money, and hopelessness.”
“West Bengal is one of the major states in India originating a large proportion of migrant workers, but I am surprised to note that not a single district in the state of West Bengal has been included in the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan,” he wrote.
He has proposed to reevaluate the number of districts that are eligible to be included in the program.
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