Jharkhand Congress unit receives over 12,000 distress calls from stranded workers

Within the first two days of setting up a Helpline for stranded migrant workers, Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee was overwhelmed to receive over 12 thousand calls from stranded workers in distress.

47 days into the lockdown, they are still looking for ways to return to their villages in Jharkhand. The Helpline had been set up in the wake of Congress President Sonia Gandhi instructing all state units to help the stranded workers.

The dedicated helplines were flooded with calls and details were taken down including their phone numbers, places where they are stranded and names of the villages they want to return.

They seemed to be stranded in all parts of the country and scattered over 24 states, revealed Manas Sinha, the Working PCC President and in charge of the Help Desk. The five members of the team manning the Helpline have also been receiving hundreds of distress calls individually as well. They all want to be brought back home somehow.

A state-wise break up with all the relevant data, Sinha informed, had been handed over to the Chief Secretary Sukhdev Singh. The PCC delegation led by Sinha included Ravindra Singh, V.P.Sharan, Satish Paul Munjani and Amulya Niraj Khalkho.

The delegation requested the Chief Secretary to take up the issue in right earnest so that the distress of the migrant workers could be mitigated.

The disress calls continue to pour in, said Sinha.