{"id":8277,"date":"2020-05-28T20:59:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8277"},"modified":"2020-05-28T20:59:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:29:12","slug":"migration-commission-welfare-schemes-for-the-vulnerable-sections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/migration-commission-welfare-schemes-for-the-vulnerable-sections\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration Commission: Welfare schemes for the vulnerable sections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Relevance: Prelims\/Mains: G.S paper II: Polity: Governance: Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Context:<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2022 At a webinar Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister spoke about the problems of those who have to move out of the state to earn their livelihoods.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A \u201cMigration Commission\u201d will be established to help workers who have returned to the state amid the lockdown.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Commission will find ways to guarantee social security to workers, provide them jobs according to their skills.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The CM also criticised other states for not taking care of workers from UP during the lockdown.<\/p>\n

Misplaced concern:<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2022 For sure, the salience of welfare schemes for migrants \u2014 insurance, legal support, unemployment allowance \u2014 and the need for better employment avenues for them, cannot be overstated.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The UP CM\u2019s stated concern for the dignity of workers from the state in workplaces in other states is also welcome.<\/p>\n

\u2022 But a relevant intervention on an important issue framed by the ongoing public health emergency assumed a problematic overtone when the UP CM said: \u201cWithout our permission, our people cannot be taken by other states\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Quite simply, what the chief minister has proposed is against the interests of the workers he is professing concern for.<\/p>\n

\u2022 It also goes against a fundamental tenet of the Constitution: Clauses d and e of Article 19 guarantee citizens the right to move freely throughout the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Questions and Unseemly interventions:<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2022 The public exchange on the issue of the stranded and vulnerable migrant workforce has thrown up several questionable and unseemly interventions so far.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More than 20 lakh migrants have reportedly returned to UP in the two months after Prime Minister announcement of a nationwide lockdown dried up their sources of livelihood.<\/p>\n

\u2022 While the UP government did mobilise buses to ferry back stranded migrants, a large number of them have had to undertake arduous journeys to return home.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Earlier this month, the UP government sparred with the government of Maharashtra over logistics for the returning migrants.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Last week, it engaged in a battle of one-upmanship with the Opposition Congress over buses to transport workers back to the state.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Unfortunately, on this issue, the U.P government does not seem to be an exception.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Buses from Jharkhand have reportedly been turned back from the Bengal border, the Bihar government gave only a reluctant nod to bringing migrants by Shramik Special trains, Jharkhand has accused Chhattisgarh of sending back people who tested COVID-19, and it took a public uproar for the Karnataka government to revoke its order cancelling trains for migrants.<\/p>\n

Conclusion:<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2022 The UP government can be said to be attempting to use the emergency created by the pandemic to give itself undue powers over its citizens.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The decision of workers to return to their worksites, or not, is best left to them. Of course, the home states may have legitimate worries about their working conditions.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Negotiations between states should inform efforts to create and strengthen social security for workers \u2014 not unilateral, unconstitutional decisions.<\/p>\n

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