Yogi: Ensure safety of migrants, give them food
CM SAYS 1,018 Shramik Special trains have reached state, 178 more on way
LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath said 1,018 Shramik Special trains had reached their destinations in the state while 178 trains were on way to Uttar Pradesh. Yogi was reviewing the lockdown 4.0 situation at a high level meeting here on Saturday.
Safety of migrant labourers must be ensured and they should be given food and drinking water when they enter the state, he added.
The chief minister said they should be medically screened and, if found fit, they should be sent to home quarantine, along with a kit of food grains.
A poster carrying details should be pasted outside the homes of those put in home quarantine, Yogi Adityanath said.
Food grains and food packets should be made available to all those in need, he added.
The chief minister advocated skill mapping of all those returning in order to help them get a job after the lockdown ends. He also said training should be conducted for nursing and paramedical staff who came back home.
The chief minister used the occasion to direct his team of officers to get in touch with the Muslim religious leaders to get an appeal issued by them to the community to offer prayers and celebrate Eid at home by following social distancing norms.
He said lockdown rules should be strictly implemented and patrolling should be made effective to ensure that no crowding took place anywhere.
Patrolling should also be intensified at expressways and arrangements for ambulances should be made there, he said.
The possibility of making N-95 masks and PPE kits reusable should be explored, he said.
If any new technology had been developed for the purpose, research institutes should be contacted, he said.
The chief minister said necessary equipment and machine should be procured at the earliest to ensure early test results.
He also said work on all the major projects, including the Ganga Expressway, must begin. He suggested strengthening the farmer producer organisations (FPOs) and self-help groups (SHGs) to ensure they were able to store food grains at the local level. Adequate vigil should be maintained in the state in view of the locust attacks in Rajasthan, the chief minister added.
He said a proposal for implementation of the Prime Minister’s special economic package should be sent to the Centre after formulating a work plan in the state.