Govt issues guidelines for interstate movement of persons stranded because of lockdown
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The guidelines were issued less than a week before the lockdown is set to end.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Wednesday issued a set of guidelines for moving the migrant labourers, who do not have coronavirus symptoms. to their home states.
The guidelines were issued less than a week before the lockdown is set to end.
GoI issues order to State/UTs to facilitate Inter-State mvmt of stranded people inc. #MigrantLabourers, in the country.
— Spokesperson, Ministry of Home Affairs (@PIBHomeAffairs) April 29, 2020
All persons to be medically screened at source & destination; & kept in home/institutional quarantine on arrival, as per @MoHFW_INDIA guidelines.#COVID19 pic.twitter.com/4zfztwB2NA
The order from the home ministry asked the states to appoint nodal bodies and draw up protocols for the migrants' movement.
"The moving person(s) would be screened and those found asymptomatic would be allowed to proceed," the order read.