[LIVE UPDATES] Supreme Court Hearing On Plight Of Migrant Workers (Suo Motu)

Advocate appearing for West Bengal - takes bench through statistics viz. transportation of #migrants.

Bhushan J. - “We are not on that Counsel, our concern is how many #migrantworkers in state that want to go out?”

Advocate replies - “We are more of a receiving state”

J. Bhushan, “What’s the Information pertaining to how many people are stranded ?”

Kumar responds that there is no information in this regard.

Sr. Adv. Ranjit Kumar, appearing for State of Bihar, informs the Bench that 28 lakh people have returned. 10 lakh people skill mapping has been done by the Bihar government in a step to provide for their employment.

Senior Advocate PS Narsimha (for UP) now adds that a phenomenal job has been done to transport #migrants.

“A time will come when this will be recounted, its phenomenal”

Bhushan J. - We’ll issue some directions today since they [#migrants] have now reached their native places. There should be centre’s to take care of their health at the district levels now.

Narsimha takes the bench through statistics of numbers of migrants who have been sent back.

“1664 #ShramikTrains organised, 21 lac 69 thousand people were transported back to their native places from here. Just imagine my lords, 5.5 lakh labourers brought from Delhi border.”

Sr. Adv. PS Narsimha for UP Govt, informs the Bench 104 special trains were organised and over 1 lakh migrants were transported back to UP from various parts of India. He further states that at no point of time was the UP Govt charging from the labourers.

ASG Jain, “Till May 31, 3,10,000 workers have gone back. We are assuming 2 lakh are left, as 6 lakh registered. But now that work has restarted, we are assuming about 10,000 workers left to go back.”

J. Bhushan- 15 days time to send them back is optimum time.

Sr. Adv. Maninder Singh, appearing for Gujarat, submits that no further inquiry is required at the moment, as out of 22 lakhs, 20.5 lakhs have been transported.

ASG Sanjay Jain says that about 2 lakh workers are still here.

Now they construction activities have opened up, people are not expressing desire to go back