Pradip Bhattacharya writes that many migrant workers are deprived of PM’s benefit scheme because they have not been registered in their native districts.
Congress MP Pradip Bhattacharya in a letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that a large number of migrant workers have not been registered in their native districts and hence deprived of the Prime Minister’s benefit scheme for such people.
The veteran Congress leader in his letter urged the CM to compile a database of district-wise data of migrant labourers and to send the information to the Centre so that such workers can avail the scheme.
“I have learnt that the Prime Minister of India has unveiled a scheme of financial contribution for the migrant workers which stipulates that minimum 25,000 migrant workers should be present in any district of any state and will fulfil the eligibility for the…