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Kerala inactive lacks close information connected the fig of migrant workers successful the State.
The Labour section has not taken up immoderate authoritative survey to find the fig of migrant workers successful the State, according to information furnished by Minister for Labour V. Sivankutty successful the just-concluded league of the Assembly.
Lack of close information is simply a large hurdle successful ensuring payment of migrant workers, including just wages and entree to societal information schemes.
More than 5.16 lakh migrant workers person registered nether the Aawaaz wellness security strategy of the State government, according to information with the Labour department.
Migrant workers are besides registered nether the Inter-State Migrant Workers Welfare Scheme and the Athidhi portal and Athidhi app. As galore arsenic 4.2 lakh migrant workers person registered with the Athidhi portal/app and 1.65 lakh nether the Inter-State Migrant Workers Welfare Scheme that is chiefly channelled done the Kerala Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board, amusement the data.
However, the Economic Review 2024 quotes a survey by Parida and Raviraman successful 2021 that puts the fig of migrant workers astatine astir 31 lakh. The Economic Review puts the largest fig of migrant workers successful the operation assemblage (17.5 lakh), followed by manufacturing (6.3 lakh).
Interestingly, the fig of those registered nether Aawaaz had touched 5.16 lakh backmost successful August 2023, according to the Economic Review for the twelvemonth 2024, published by the State Planning Board.
Last year, the State Cabinet took the determination to make a unified portal and mobile exertion for the registration and information postulation of migrant workers. It was announced that those who registry would beryllium fixed an Aadhaar-based unsocial fig and the accusation made disposable to agencies that woody with migrant workers. The Minister’s reply though indicates that steps to make the unified portal are inactive on.
Moreover, the Cabinet had decided successful 2021 to bring successful an ordinance (Kerala Interstate Migrant Workers Welfare Registration Ordinance) to marque registration mandatory of each migrant workers. Four years later, the authorities is inactive readying the ordinance, according to the Minister.
The ordinance envisages a punishment proviso for migrant workers who are not registered and their employers. Besides making payment schemes accessible to the workers, it is hoped that by registering their details successful constabulary stations the recognition of those with transgression past volition go easier.
All procedures related to registration and occupation information of migrant workers are presently done arsenic per the Interstate Migrant Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Services) Act, 1979.
