Agartala, Mar 31 (UNI) Tripura government has paid Rs 3000 as relief for three months to each of 1.7 registered construction workers of the state who has become jobless following the 21-day lockdown curfew following Covid-19 threat in the country.
Law and education minister Ratan Lal Nath today said that Tripura is having 23,000 migrant workers mainly working in 35 brickfields, 54 tea estates, different godowns and major markets of the state for whom the government would also extend support and presently they were provided with two square meals a day free of cost.
“The chief minister repeatedly appealed to the owner of those industries and sectors to extend benevolent support to the workers engaged in all unorganized sectors in addition to their normal pay though there is no work now. They should not feel alienated and helpless in this critical situation with their families and the state government would do also do its best and so far everybody is responding well,” Nath said.