Migrants housed at Navelim home offered work

TNN | Updated: Apr 24, 2020, 08:53 IST

The migrants being ferried to workplace and back

MARGAO: The South Goa district administration has begun to offer livelihood opportunities to the hundreds of migrant labourers housed in the shelter home at Manohar Parrikar indoor stadium at Navelim.
While the state forest department has begun engaging their services on a daily wage basis, a Verna-based pharmaceutical firm on Wednesday hired some 20 labourers for its cargo loading/unloading activities.
Ajit Panchwadkar, incident commander for Margao of the Covid-19 task force constituted under State Disaster Management Authority, said a couple of private firms have responded to their appeal to engage the labourers from the shelter home for their work.
“Breakfast and lunch, besides transportation facility to pick them up from the shelter home and drop them back, will be provided by the firms. We expect more firms to engage more labourers soon,” Panchwadkar said.