Govt issues SOP to send back workers
Bhubaneswar: The Naveen Patnaik government has started the process of sending home more than 60,000 migrant workers from different states who have been stuck in various temporary shelters in Odisha.
A standard operating procedure (SOP) has been issued to all collectors and municipal commissioners by the revenue and disaster management department to ensure smooth return of the workers by road or rail. In the SOP, special relief commissioner PK Jena has asked all collectors and municipal commissioners to obtain prior approval of their counterparts in the recipient states before the departure of any train or bus carrying migrant workers from Odisha.
While collectors and municipal commissioners have been authorised to issue transit passes for road journey by bus or vans, they have been asked to provide details about the passengers, destination (district/block) and their mobile numbers to their counterparts or state coordinators in the recipient states.
To ease the difficulty, the SRC asked the collectors and municipal commissioners to divide the workers in groups according to their districts and blocks while boarding buses/vans. “One of the passengers of each group, someone with a smartphone, may be designated as the group coordinator. His or her mobile number may be passed on to the recipient collector/municipal commissioner or state coordinator,” said Jena.
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