Media Release

Mangaluru, May 20: South Canara district administration requested Milagres Educational institutions to provide temporary transit accommodation to around 50 to 100 migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh.

The institute happily obliged the authorities as they could be of some assistance to these ‘guests'. The request was for at the most two days as by then their travel would be arranged from Mangalore Central Railway station. Now, it is almost a week and there is no sign of their departure. Moreover, the number has swelled from the requested 100 to 550.

The migrants have a long list of complaints as anyone would have in this tense and uncertain situation, the main concern being food. Milagres Institutions approached the Revenue Department expressing their willingness to provide good food to these people which was willingly permitted.

From Tuesday May 19 onwards Milagres Educational Institutions provide good food to these people through the generous assistance of well-wishers and benefactors especially of John Samuel of Dubai.

Bishop of Mangaluru diocese, Dr Peter Paul Saldanha visited the transit camp and interacted with the migrants and distributed food.

Fr Michael Santhumayor, the campus director and principal of Milagres College and Fr Maxim D’Souza, vice-principal of Milagres High school took the lead in this act of charity ably assisted by Austin Peres and John Monteiro.