migrants

While the citizens in the United Kingdom (UK) are suffering from an acute financial crisis and whereas many UK military families are not having access to room-heating systems or hot water, the government has been spending US$8.5 million every day to host illegal migrants in hotels at the cost of taxpayers.

Prime minister of New-Zealand Jacinda Ardern ordered to keep the border close due to covid-19 reasons.

real time data base can be extremely useful at the time of war. If we know the exact number of workers we have in our country, It can give us some extra advantage over countries like Pakistan where data is highly unorganised.

Even though govt rolled out a great help by direct bank transfer and ration to the needy, migrants could not avail them away from native state. We need to think 'how does govt reach the migrants directly'? Here are two suggestions.

Why the hurry to ascribe something that the state/government failed at to an individual shame?

Our forefathers and constitution-makers were aware of the discriminatory approach adopted by the residents towards the migrants. That is why they explicitly mentioned that no person shall be discriminated based on their place of birth and residence, explicitly in Article 15 and 16 of the Indian constitution.

With most of the labour returning back home during this lockdown, states can seize this opportunity to roll out measures so that labour stays in their hometown by eliminating the push factors which compel labour movement in the first place.