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Letter to BS: Lockdown should not mean robbing Peter to pay Paul

How will the small-scale in­dustries/contractors, whose businesses have shut down, make the payments to the workers?

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A migrant worker from Madhya Pradesh carries a child as he walks along the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, following the coronavirus lockdown, in Palghar | (PTI Photo)

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The Union government’s order to the states to seal borders in order to restrict the movement of labourers who have been rendered jobless and homeless, amounts to mass discrimination. Many  left unable to pay their house rents even as the Delhi government issued a statement recently saying that it would pay the rents in case the tenants were un­able to do so. On the other hand, there are a number of senior citizens who rent their houses to the migrant workers and their sole earning is the rent paid by them. The Prime Minister has also ap­pealed to the industry

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