Subramanian Swamy endorses railway solution for migrant workers amid Coronavirus lockdown

BJP leer Subramanian Swamy on Friday endorsed vocate Ishkaran Singh Bhandari's suggestion of Government-run free ticketless trains for migrant workers. Taking to Twitter, Swamy put forth suggestion to run trains for three days from where migrant workers live to ir hometown. He furr ded that if this is t done, country might experience a 1947- migration.

Earlier, Bhandari did a question and answer round on Twitter where he put forth suggestion.

MHA issues visory

 Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday issued an visory to all states and Union Territories to take immediate steps to dress problems faced by agricultural labourers, migrant workers in organized and urganized sector, outstation students and working women. state governments have been vised to explore measures to provide food, shelter and basic amenities such as clean drinking water and sanitation to vulnerable groups.

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COVID-19 cases rise in India

As of date, India has reported over 850 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19. Out of all states, Kerala and Maharashtra have reported most in country. Meanwhile, 19 people have died so far due to dely virus. Due to outbreak, Prime Minister Narendra Modi h put India under a national lockdown for 21 days. Furr, India has also closed India-Pakistan border and restricted passenger movement at border with Banglesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Myanmar.  

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Coronavirus crisis across globe

Presently, re are around 594,377 confirmed cases of COVID-19 which has led to death of around 27,250 people. Meanwhile, around 133,006 people have reportedly recovered. Currently, as per reports, hardest-hit region is United States of America, followed by China, and n Italy, Iran and South Korea, where number of cases is rising by hour.

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