The Labour Ministry on Tuesday (April 14, 2020) said that it has set up 20 control rooms on a pan-India basis to address wage-related grievances and to mitigate problems faced by migrant workers amid the lockdown period to contain the coronavirus crisis.
The announcement from the Labour Ministry came minutes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended the nationwide lockdown till May 3 with conditional relaxation from April 20 in some areas on the basis of the evaluation of the situation.
The workers, especially migrant labourers, are the worst among due to the lockdown as a large number of them either faced pay cut or job loss. According to an International Labour Organisation assessment, 40 crore informal sector workers in India could be pushed deeper into poverty due to this lockdown.
“The Ministry of Labour and Employment has set up 20 control rooms under the Office of Chief Labour Commissioner (CLC) (C) on pan-India basis due to issues arising in the backdrop of COVID-19,” it said in a statement.