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Ludhiana police to form welfare committees to help migrants
The committee members will enrol 30 volunteers in every police station to help in enforcing the lockdown.
Days after a labourer committed suicide after failing to arrange ration for his family, the Ludhiana police has decided to form migrant welfare committees at the police station level.
The committee will consist of five to 12 members, and ensure adequate ration supply for labourers besides assisting them in returning to their native places.
Police commissioner Rakesh Agrawal said, “The committees will address the problems being faced by labourers in the factories and their ‘vehras’ (labour quarters). They will help them in obtaining curfew passes and help those workers who wish to go to shelter homes.”
“The station house officer (SHO) will hold daily meetings with the committee members and officers above the rank of assistant commissioner of police (ACP) will convene a meeting with the members once a week,” he said.
The police chief also added that the committee members will enrol 30 volunteers in every police station to help in enforcing the lockdown.
The decision has come in wake of the suicide of labourer Ajit Rai of Rajiv Gandhi Colony. He had ended his life by hanging self on the intervening night of May 10 and 11, for not getting ration despite frequent efforts.
Labourers in the city have also been protesting for three consecutive days, demanding to be sent them back to their native places.
