Opinion: I Appeal To You, Ask For This For Migrant Workers - By Yashwant Sinha Latest

Everyone, not just in India but around the world, now knows about the plight of migrant workers. This has done incalculable damage to our international image. But that does not prevent the government from playing its own drum and publishing its nonexistent achievements. 

The 20 million rupees package, declared by the Prime Minister and explained by the Minister of Finance for five days, turned out to be a pipe dream and, as I said in a tweet, only rubbed salt on the wounds of the poor. It is not just a faulty package, it is a fraud package. 

The Finance Minister was so ruthless that she did not even mention migrant workers in her first press and when she mentioned some misery for them in the second, do not condole their deaths in traffic accidents, on or off a train track. pure exhaustion after reaching your destination. Those scenes of people walking on the roads or using any means of transportation available to them may not have been witnessed in the country after the Partition. 

Her suffering is heartbreaking, her pain unbearable and her situation unacceptable. This tragedy has been unfolding for the past two months and what started as a trickle has turned into a flood.

Only the Government of India and the Government of India are responsible for creating this disaster. First, you should have anticipated the consequences of the blockade, announced without proper planning on March 24. Second, it should have ensured its proper management once it hit us all so hard. 

Third, to contain the spread of the virus, it should have ensured that workers stayed where they were, except for those who move seasonally to their places of origin at this time of year. You should have known that your closing order would lead to the immediate closure of the six small and micro crore industrial units spread across the country where these workers were employed. 

You should also have known that, in the absence of resources, employers would not be able to pay the wages of these workers and that a simple opinion to do so would not help. The government has now withdrawn that order, acknowledging its folly.

From NDTV News