Nuapada migrant worker missing even after 6 mths Thursday, 05 August 2021 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA

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Nuapada migrant worker missing even after 6 mths

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https://www.dailypioneer.com/2021/state-editions/nuapada-migrant-worker-missing-even-after-6-mths.html

Kodo Majhi, a migrant worker from Michhapali village of Komna block, who went missing before six months while on his way to Hyderabad to work in a brick kiln, is yet to be traced. His wife, two sons and a young daughter are struggling hard to live their lives in his absence. They say police as well as the Labour Department have not initiated any inquiry on the complaint they have filed.

"We filed a case at the Komna police station and also lodged a complaint in the labour office, but neither the police nor the labour office has taken any action," rues Kodo’s wife Akashi.

A team of volunteers of the Garib Sena, a people's forum of Nuapada, led by its president Rabi Mangaraj, met the distressed family at Michhapali. "The district administration is not at all bothered over such matters. They do not have authentic data on the actual numbers of migrants going out of the State. Most migrants are sent by middlemen, but no one remains accountable if something adverse happens. Two migrant workers of Babeghati village have gone missing from their workplaces in last two years. Brijlal Bag of Babupali village disappeared last year from his workplace. But the whereabouts of these missing people are yet to be ascertained," says Mangaraj.

The Garib Sena has demanded that Kodo Majhi and other missing workers be traced immediately and all basic services should be provided to the family members of the missing and deceased members.

The Government should provide financial assistance of up to Rs 5 lakh each to the families of migrant labourers who are dying in the workplaces, the Sena has stated.

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