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| Prepare exit plan for labourers, students stranded in other States: Harsh | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, April 18: “With the stranded labourers in various states restive to reach their homes, the govt. needed to work upon an exit plan so as to ensure their safe evacuation. The centre as well as state governments needed to appreciate their peculiar concerns and devise a suitable strategy for their safe return. It was an undisputed fact that not all stranded labourers were getting enough food, medicine and other essential items of daily use with a vast majority having become cash starved and even shelter less. With patience of such stranded labourers and work force fast running out, the situation could take an ugly turn if not handled appropriately”. This was stated by Harsh Dev Singh, JKNPP Chairman and former Minister while addressing media persons in Jammu today.
Revealing the pathetic plight of the huge work force and students held up in other states, Singh said that he had received several videos where dozens and dozens of labourers were holed up in single rooms with hardly any concern for their health and safety.
“A vast number of workers were repeatedly complaining about non availability of food items and resultant risk of infection due to overcrowding at their places of lodgings. It was most regrettable that despite the details having been provided to the UT administration, the much needed help to these distressed workers was still elusive. And while they were suffering outside, their families were facing worst nightmares in the absence of family bread earners”, regretted Singh.
Referring to the announcement of the PM, that agricultural workers would be allowed to undertake agricultural practices, Mr. Singh said that the stranded labourers of J&K were in actual practice small time farmers who had gone outside in search of work during off season. “And with the advent of agricultural season, they were required to reach home to work in their farms to make both ends meet. If not evacuated immediately and brought home, it is not the workers alone who would suffer but agricultural production would also be adversely impacted leading to foodgrain crisis in the days to come. And this significant aspect could also not be ignored”, said Singh.
Seeking immediate indulgence of the helmsmen in the UT and Centre, Singh called for early deportation of all stranded labourers in view of rising tempers amongst the teeming millions of affected workers. He regretted that the govt’s apathy and disregard for their pathetic plight had sparked xenophobic reactions all across the Nation from the panicked workers which would prove counter-productive. |
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