‘Facilitate safe and dignified movement of migrants’: Former bureaucrats, scholars to PM Modi

Among the signatories of the petition listed are former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung, former Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen, and for UGC chairperson Sukhdeo Thorat, among others.

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As many as 4,000 signatories, including former bureaucrats, research scholars, former members of the judiciary among others, have appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to “fulfil its constitutional obligations” and “facilitate the safe and dignified movement of millions of migrants” through the deployment of central forces and resources.

In a petition forwarded to the Prime Minister’s Office, the signatories referred to the implementation of the National Disaster Management Act amid the pandemic and demanded the “same resources of the central government as would any natural disaster” and distribution of all forms of assistance in their pre-departure and post-arrival arrangements.