Balangir MP Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo has urged the Chief Minister for opening of more centres to accommodate around 20,000 migrant children and for ensuring compulsory registration of migrant labourers by opening a migrants’ register to streamline the process of migration.
In a letter written to CM Naveen Patnaik, Singh Deo has urged him to take steps for ensuring mandatory panchyat-level registration of migrant labourers, opening of seasonal hostels to accommodate 20, 000 migrant labourers’ children and its expansion to Subarnapur district by opening a seasonal hostel there, and to take steps to ensure release of rehabilitation assistance of 168 rescued migrant bonded labourers of Balangir district and 15 migrant bonded labourers of Subarnapur district and also take steps to streamline the process of migration further by taking action against the middlemen involved in labour trafficking to brick kilns and construction sites.