Coronavirus: HC Directs Uttarakhand Govt to Provide All Possible Facilities to Migrants

  • Uttarakhand HC has directed the state government to provide all facilities to return migrants.
  • He also directed to provide free transport to those who want to leave for their home states amid coronavirus crisis.
  • A bench of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Ravindra Maithani also asked the Centre and the State to file responses of the returnees test report.
  • The court had pointed out two issues, the plight of migrant workers and such persons who are presently outside Uttarakhand but want to come to the state.
  • The present estimate of the migrant workers in the state is around two lakhs.
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