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Migrant workers refused by Karnataka due to lack of IDs: Goa CM

  •   Fri, May 08 2020 08:58:19 AM

Panaji, May 8 (IANS): Around 60 migrant workers heading back from Goa to their homes in Karnataka were turned away from the border by the latter's officials on Thursday, because they were not carrying any identification documents to prove they hailed from the state, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said.

"They could not produce any Aadhaar card or voter card with a Karnataka address, which is why they were sent back from the border," he said.

The migrant workers were being transported from Goa to Karnataka in buses on Thursday. The buses were turned back, after the Karnataka officials insisted on local address proof, forcing the migrant workers to return to Goa.

 

"All the migrant workers were from the Margao area. We have told them to source and scan ID copies from their native homes. We will attest them and send them across the border," Sawant said.

The Chief Minister also said that the first batch of nearly 1000 migrant workers were expected to transported out of Goa to Uttar Pradesh on Friday.
  

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  • rawraj, Mangalore

    Tue, May 26 2020

    This is appalling the officials should be taken to task.
    Why will those migrants move to a place other than their home town.
    Why will UP migrant want to enter karnataka.
    They could have called up their families and called the police station of the migrants native village and verified their ids and on the border.
    Only 60 migrants how much time will it take maybe a few hours.
    Seems everyone has gone mad this way we may even see murders and lynching of suspected covid patients or people with common cold or flu

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  • myna, mysuru

    Sat, May 09 2020

    Politics apart please understand that the hardship caused is to the human beings who are our migrant workers. They have served the country may be in a different state. Please give powers to the Police, and local authorities to take speedy decisions and solve the human misery. Both the State Governments are by the same party - BJP- and both are formed by defections and not elected by the people. Don't understand why this harassment to the poor people.

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