Maurya: Engage migrants in construction projects

Kanpur: Deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, who is also incharge of Kanpur, on Thursday expressed concern over the hardships being faced by the migrant labourers and asked the district officials to engage them in construction work.
Maurya through video conferencing talked to the district administration officials, prominent party leaders and ministers including industry minister Satish Mahana, Kamal Rani Varun, minister of state Neelima Katiyar and Devendra Singh Bhole, MP and asked them to prepare a Whatsapp group of local public representatives and district officials in order to know about the coronavirus related activities taking place in the city.
He asked the officials to arrange food and drinking water for migrant labourers who were going back to their native places. He has directed village pradhans to inform panchayat representatives and district officials to send in 14 days quarantine the labourers who were going directly to their homes.
The deputy CM directed the officials to allow construction work outside red zones so that people could get employment. Industry minister Satish Mahana informed Maurya that several industries in the city have started production where labourers were getting employment. Minister of state Neelima Katiyar urged the government to strictly enforce lockdown.