Maharashtra Home Minister: We will ensure that no migrant worker or poor person starves amid the lockdown

Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Tuesday said the state government will ensure that no migrant worker or any other poor person starves amid the lockdown on account of coronavirus.

He visited migrant labourers who have been given shelter at the Richardson Cruddas premises in Byculla in central Mumbai earlier in the day.

The minister also gave food packets to the migrant workers. "This (his visit) reaffirms what Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has said....the state will ensure no one goes hungry. "Tribals, daily wage labourers or any other poor person,irrespective of which state they are from, the Maharashtra government is committed to see to it that they don't suffer," he said.

He had instructed officials to collect data of jobless migrant workers so that they can he given relief effectively, the minister added.