NEW DELHI : The government aims to train and place around 300,000 migrant workers in villages and small towns so that they don’t have to travel to cities every year in search of work.
The move will also formalize their informal work.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will officially unveil the massive rural job scheme targeting around 6.5 million migrants who have returned home during the lockdown.
The scheme was put in place to contain the spread of coronavirus and offer every returnee four months of informal work.The government, working with 116 district administrations, has also chalked out a plan to offer formal employment to a segment of these workers. “We have asked 116 district administrations to explore placement of migrants as.
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