Chennai: Migrant labourers gathered in droves in different parts of Chennai on Saturday demanding that they be sent back to their home towns even as neighbouring states Kerala and Telangana acted with urgency on the need to facilitate the return of workers from other states.
Protests, that erupted in regions including Central, Velachery, Guindy, Mogappair and Pallavaram, said in unison that they want to go back to their respective states.
In Velachery, over 500 labourers marched towards rippon building demanding that they be sent back home. Police officials urged them to disperse and gave them an assurance that arrangements will be made for their travel.
The migrant workers have been housed in relief camps in several localities in the city and suburbs. In Pallavaram, over a thousand migrant labourers gathered at Cowl Bazaar demanding that they be transported to their home states after they heard the news of one train taking workers from Telangana to Jharkhand. Police held discussions with the labourers to pacify them.
Tamil Nadu had appointed senior bureaucrat Atulya Mishra as the officer to supervise migrant affairs amid the COVID-19 lockdown but the state has not announced any measure so far, but the opening of portal for registration of migrants. The Tamil Nadu ePASS system was launched early on Saturday.
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