Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
To check distress migration in two of its most migration-prone districts, Odisha plans to give assured employment of 200 days under MGNREGA and ration for migrant families in advance for three months, besides other measures. A meeting of several departments, including labour, panchayati raj, food supplies and consumer welfare, fisheries and animal husbandry, held last week decided to focus on two of the four districts that sees rampant migration every year. Bolangir and Nuapada, the western Odisha districts, saw almost half of the total migration of 1.28 lakh people last year.
