Koderma district administration has started "Shramik Samman Kitchen" to ensure quality food and to provide earning opportunity to the quarantined migrant workers, who have come from different parts of the States amid nationwide lockdow.
DC, Ramesh Gholap said everyday migrant workers were coming to Koderma, they have lost their jobs and it would be difficult for them to run their families without money. He said, the Shramik Samman Kitchen ,was one step towards providing them job opportunity .
Initially, 6 migrant workers , with experience working with big restaurants , have been engaged in Kitchen , said the DC. The cook will be paid Rs 800 per day and the rest 5 helpers will be paid Rs 500 per day for their works.
Gholap said, the district administration was making separate list of skilled and unskilled migrant workers to ensure jobs to them . He said , all BDOs had been asked to prepare the list of jobs under MGNREGA in their respective blocks to provide job opportunities to them.
The DC, who himself hails from a humble background , as a schoolboy he helped his mother sell bangles , said he could feel the pain of labourers. He said, the administration would not let any stone unturned to generate job opportunities for the migrant workers of the district.
There was a sense of satisfaction and an atmosphere of joy and happiness was prevailed among the workers, who were given work opportunities in the Shramik Samman Kitchen. Expressing the feelings Pintu Pandey, the cook , said ,"If we get employment opportunity here in our district, why would we go to other states".