Migrant People Must Be Quarantined for Minimum Period of 14 Days, Says Centre
New Delhi: The Centre has urged all the State governments and Union Territory administrations to seal state and district borders to stop movement of migrant workers. The Centre has also asked to ensure adequate arrangement of temporary shelters and provisions of food and other facilities for poor and needy people stranded due to lockdown announced [...]
New Delhi: The Centre has urged all the State governments and Union Territory administrations to seal state and district borders to stop movement of migrant workers.
The Centre has also asked to ensure adequate arrangement of temporary shelters and provisions of food and other facilities for poor and needy people stranded due to lockdown announced in view of COVID -19 outbreak.
In its fresh directive, the Home Ministry said, the migrant people, who have moved out to reach their home states, must be kept in the nearest shelters by the concerned states and quarantined after proper screening for a minimum period of 14 days.
The Ministry has also directed the employers including industry, shops and commercial establishments to make payment of wages of their workers on the due date without any deduction.
The landlords of workers have also been ordered not to demand rent for a period of one month. It has been warned that action will be taken if any landlord forces labourers and students to vacate their premises.
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