Centre should arrange for migrant workers to go home: Sena

Mumbai : The Shiv Sena on Monday said it is the Centre’s responsibility to make arrangements for sending migrant labourers to their native places in the wake of the lockdown enforced to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Several migrant labourers have been residing in the coronavirus hotspots of Mumbai’s Dharavi slum area, it noted.
“It is the Centres responsibility to arrange trains and buses so that labourers could reach their homes,” an editorial in Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ said.
If these people continue to flock the streets, it is not safe for their health, the Marathi publication said, adding that the Centre cannot shrug off its responsibility.
“We wish that the kind of promptness shown by the Centre for the return of some Gujarati tourists from Haridwar (in Uttarakhand), should also be shown for migrant labourers,” it said.
“These people are homesick and we cannot assess what would happen if they gather on streets,” it added.