NEW DELHI: The Centre has begun to put together a database on the cross country movement of migrant workers. The Union home ministry had instructed states to register migrants at the state of embarkation as well as disembarkation, and this move is aimed at expediting contact tracing of migrants, if case anybody tests positive for novel coronavirus.
The database--National Migrant Information System (NMIS)--set up by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), "would maintain a central repository on migrant workers and help in speedy inter-state communication and co-ordination to facilitate their smooth movement to native places.