ERNAKULAM : At a time when reports are rife about scores of migrant workers walking back to their native states on foot, hit by the coronavirus induced lockdown in the country, Kerala has started a novel scheme to shelters those who came to the state for work and are stuck now.
The state has opened 4,603 relief camps on Friday that have housed 1,44,145 migrant labourers, officially called as guest workers, according to the office of Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
Another 35 camps opened for 1,545 homeless and destitute people, the CM said. Food, masks, soaps, sanitisers have been made available in all those camps, and in the coming days, more educational institutions will be taken over for these purposes, said Vijayan. "It is not