Lok Sabha Question No. 69 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-14
Subject: Migrant Labourers during COVID-19
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Pramila Bisoyi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 69 TO BE ANSWERED ON 14.09.2020

## MIGRANT LABOURERS DURING COVID-19

## 69. SHRIMATI PRAMILA BISOYI:

Will the Minister of LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT   be pleased to state:

- (a)whether the Government is aware of number of migrant labourers/families who returned to the origin during COVID-19;
- (b)if so, the details thereof, State-wise;
- (c)the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  provide  education  to  the children of migrant family during COVID-19;
- (d)whether the Government is planning to provide cash assistance to
- the migrant family; and
- (e)if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR)

(a) to (e): India,  as  a  Nation,  has  responded  through  the  Central government,  State  governments,  Local  Bodies,  Self-help  Groups, Resident Welfare Associations, Medical Health Professionals, Sanitation Workers as well as large number of genuine and bonafide non-governmental  organizations  in  the  Nation's  fight  against  the unprecedented human crisis due to the outbreak of Covid  - 19 and country-wide lockdown. A Statement is enclosed.

Ministry  of  Women  and  Child  Development  has  launched various  schemes  for  migrant  workers  who  have  returned  to  their native places. One of the schemes is Anganwadi services which has been extended to children of migrant workers.

In  order  to  ensure  relief  measures  not  only  for  the  poor people  and  migrant  workers  but  also  to  their  families/dependents, Government has announced Rs. 1.70 lakh crore relief package under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY) for the poor to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. The salient features of the relief package are:

- (i) Insurance cover of Rs.50 Lakh per health worker fighting Covid-19 provided under the insurance scheme.
- (ii) 80 crore people are being provided additional 5 kg wheat or  rice  and  1  kg  of  preferred  pulses,  free  of  cost  every month  till  November,  2020  to  all  the  beneficiaries  under provisions of National Food Security Act.
- 20.65  crores  women  Jan  Dhan  account  holder  has  been given cash assistance of Rs.500/- per month per person for three  months.  Rs.10,325  Crores,  Rs.10,315  Crores  and Rs.10,312 Crores have been credited in three installments
- (iii) to the women Jan Dhan account holders.
- (iv) 8  crore  poor  families  registered  under  the  scheme  of Ujjwala will get 1 gas cylinder, per family per month free of cost for the next three months.
- (v) MNREGA  wage  has  been  increased  Rs.202/-  a  day  from Rs.182/-, which will benefit 13.62 crore families.
- (vi) An  ex-gratia  financial  assistance  of  Rs.1000  per  person will  be  given  to  3  crore  poor  senior  citizen,  poor  widows and  poor  disabled.  Rs.2814.5  Crores  disbursed  to  about 2.81 crores old age persons, widows and disabled persons in two installments.
- (vii) Rs.17,891 Crore front loaded towards payment of the first installment of PM-KISAN Yojana to 8.94 crore beneficiaries.
- (viii) Wage-earners earning below Rs.15000/per month  in establishment  having  less  than  100  workers,  would  be given 24% of their monthly wages into their PF accounts, per person, per month for next three months.
- 2.03 crores Building and Other Construction workers have been  given  cash  assistance  of  Rs.5000  crores  (approx.)
- (ix) from the cess fund.
- 30 lakh BOC workers have been given food packages relief
- (x) also from cess fund.

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## Annexure

| S.No.   | Name of the State                  | No. of Migrant workers who have returned to their home state*   |
|---------|------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh                     | 32571                                                           |
| 2       | Andaman and Nicobar                | -                                                               |
| 3       | Arunachal Pradesh                  | 2871                                                            |
| 4       | Assam                              | 426441                                                          |
| 5       | Bihar                              | 1500612                                                         |
| 6       | Chandigarh                         | -                                                               |
| 7       | Chhattisgarh                       | -                                                               |
| 8       | Dadra &Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu | 43747                                                           |
| 9       | Delhi                              | -                                                               |
| 10      | Goa                                | -                                                               |
| 11      | Gujarat                            | -                                                               |
| 12      | Haryana                            | 1289                                                            |
| 13      | Himachal Pradesh                   | -                                                               |
| 14      | Jammu &Kashmir                     | 48780                                                           |
| 15      | Jharkhand                          | 530047                                                          |
| 16      | Karnataka                          | -                                                               |
| 17      | Kerala                             | 311124                                                          |
| 18      | Ladakh                             | 50                                                              |
| 19      | Lakshadweep                        | 456                                                             |
| 20      | Madhya Pradesh                     | 753581                                                          |
| 21      | Maharashtra                        | 182990                                                          |
| 22      | Manipur                            | 12338                                                           |
| 23      | Meghalaya                          | 4266                                                            |
| 24      | Mizoram                            | -                                                               |
| 25      | Nagaland                           | 11750                                                           |
| 26      | Odisha                             | -                                                               |
| 27      | Pondicherry                        | 1694                                                            |
| 28      | Punjab                             | 515642                                                          |
| 29      | Rajasthan                          | 1308130                                                         |
| 30      | Sikkim                             | -                                                               |
| 31      | Tamil Nadu                         | 72145                                                           |
| 32      | Telangana                          | 37050                                                           |
| 33      | Tripura                            | 34247                                                           |
| 34      | Uttar Pradesh                      | 3249638                                                         |
| 35      | Uttarakhand                        | -                                                               |
| 36      | West Bengal                        | 1384693                                                         |
|         | Total                              | 10466152                                                        |