All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has raised serious concerns over the wages of cooks and helpers working under the PM POSHAN (formerly Mid-Day Meal) scheme, calling their current compensation "grossly inadequate.”
At least 198 migrant workers lost their lives in the road accidents during the lockdown from March 25 to May 31, according to data compiled by the SaveLIFE Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to improving road safety and emergency medical care across India.
The leader of the opposition in Bihar and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav announced financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh for both the children of Arbina Khatoon, a migrant mother who died due to heat and hunger while returning from Ahmedabad by a Shramik special train to Muzaffarpur on Monday.
A video of a toddler trying to wake up his dead mother at the Muzaffarpur railway station in Bihar was widely shared on social media on Wednesday, is the latest visual to emerge from the humanitarian crisis of millions of migrant workers affected by the unplanned lockdown to tackle the coronavirus in India.
BSP supremo Mayawati on Wednesday termed as sad and unfortunate the continued sufferings of the migrant workers amid an ongoing dispute between the Centre and the Maharashtra government.