NC asks GoI to help stranded students, labourers

NC asks GoI to help stranded students, labourers

SRINAGAR: National Conference on Thursday asked the government of India to ensure that stranded students, businessmen, labourers in Bangladesh and elsewhere are properly taken care of which includes providing safe shelter and food.
Party’s member of Parliament Hasnain Masoodi in a statement sought effective government intervention in helping the stranded students in Bangladesh and other parts of the country.
“The concerned authorities must come to the rescue of such students and provide them with every possible help including food, accommodation and safe repatriation to Kashmir,” he said.
Masoodi said the marginalised traders, unorganized workforce are the most ill-fated lot in J&K.
Masoodi said the economy of J&K is in the throes of calamitous crisis and that small and marginal entrepreneurs, daily wagers, casual workers, and small traders are the worst hit.
“The government should sincerely think about doling out advance payments to old age pensioners, enhance food grain subsidies, and immediate payment of rural job schemes, wage arrears besides ensuring distribution of personal hygiene material and other items. One cannot expect people who are already tight-fisted to spend on such important and necessary things. So far the response of the J&K government towards the economic crisis has been abysmal, and not in line with other states and UT’s, where local government have gone an extra mile to mitigate the suffering of its people by dolling out special packages. We are yet to see the government to come to the rescue of people in J&K,” he said.
He sought a comprehensive economic package from the government to mitigate the hardship resulting from Covid-19 to the most vulnerable people and establishment across J&K.

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