Chief Minister Hemant Soren today unveiled the Safe and Responsible Migration Initiative (SRMI) at Project Building Secretariat. At present, the policy has been made keeping in mind the migration of workers from Dumka, West Singhbhum and Gumla under the SRMI pilot project.
From these three districts, a database of migrant workers who have gone for employment in places like Delhi, Kerala and Leh-Ladakh etc is being prepared. Social, economic and legal rights of migrant workers will be ensured by coordinating with all these states. A rule has been made to prevent the exploitation of migrant workers in any manner. After the success of this pilot project in the initial phase, the scope of the system can be made bigger. The CM on the occasion said that despite large scale migration from Jharkhand to other states and countries there was no proper policy to safeguard the interests of migrant workers. “It is the effort of the state government that we can prepare a complete database of all the labour brothers and other people from Jharkhand who go to other states or countries in search of employment and help them at the time of calamity under the policy. Certainly migration to Jharkhand in the last Corona transition period has felt to be a very big and very worrying topic,” he said.
Soren said that people of the State migrate to different states of the country and also abroad for better means of employment.
“To take our standard of living towards a positive direction, it is natural that we have to migrate to other places. Keeping all these things in view, the state government on migration is doing the work of making concrete rules and order for the migrant workers with commitment,” he said.
The CM said that even during the global pandemic period, the State Government has tried to provide all possible help to the migrant labourers by setting up a control room. The government had also done the work of bringing the labourers who wanted to come back home through various means. He said that sometimes unpleasant news related to the death of migrant labour brothers also comes.
If unfortunately a migrant worker dies, the state government will make arrangements to bring his dead body back to his home and the state government will bear the entire cost of the funeral. For this, corpus fund is being arranged in all the districts.
Soren said that the e-shram portal has been created by the government to protect the migrant labourers of the State. Under this portal, registration of migrant workers is done so that the State government can provide them immediate help at the time of calamity.
The CM appealed to the migrant labourers of the state that they must register themselves in this portal. There is also a need to establish coordination between the Central and State government in order to protect the migrant workers who work in other countries. He said that in such a way, many ambitious schemes are being run by the State Government so that the workers here can be provided employment in the vicinity of their homes.
The CM said that the State Government has provided employment in the textile industry to the rescued girls and women from the states like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh etc. Two thousand appointment letters were distributed in the textile industry, of which 80 per cent were women.
Work has been done to connect all these with more salary and facilities than other states. He expressed his desire to strengthen other services including housing, health and insurance along with dignified life for the migrant workers.
Soren said that under skill development, the government is continuously working to find better arrangements for skills and employment. The scale of development in the state is many. There are many such resources including industry, agriculture, education, health, from which employment can be created.
The priority of the government is to create maximum employment by modernizing these resources. The state government is contemplating to set up a skill university. Soon a skill university will also be established in the State.
On the occasion, benefits of marriage assistance scheme, maternity benefit scheme, funeral assistance scheme, Jharkhand construction worker death / accident assistance scheme and meritorious son-daughter scholarship assistance schemes were distributed among the beneficiaries by the CM.
Labour Minister Satyanand Bhokta, Chief Secretary Sukhdeo Singh, Secretary to Chief Minister Vinay Kumar Choubey, Secretary of Labour, Planning and Training Department Praveen Kumar Toppo, MGNREGA Commissioner B. Rajeshwari, Labour Commissioner A Muthukumar, State Head of PHIA Foundation, Johnson Topno, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Business Hyderabad Dr. Ashwini, Director CMID Vinay Peter, Associate Investment Omidyar Network India and representatives of PDAG and others were present on the occasion.