Jharkhand

• 17 Dec 2021

Safe and Responsible Migration Initiative (SRMI)

Why in news

On 16 December 2021, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren launched the Safe and Responsible Migration Initiative (SRMI), a policy designed to make the migration of migrant workers safe.

Key Points

• At present, the policy has been made keeping in mind the migration of workers from Dumka, West Singhbhum and Gumla under the Safe and Responsible Migration Initiative (SRMI) pilot project.
• A database of migrant workers is being prepared, who have gone for employment from these three districts to places like Delhi, Kerala and Leh-Ladakh etc. The social, economic and legal rights of migrant workers will be ensured by coordinating with all these states.
• Rules have been made for this purpose so that migrant workers cannot be exploited in any way. After the success of this pilot project in the initial phase, the scope of the system can be made bigger.
• On this occasion, Chief Minister Hemant Soren distributed the benefits of Marriage Assistance Scheme, Maternity Benefit Scheme, Funeral Assistance Scheme, Jharkhand Construction Workers Death/Accident Assistance Scheme and Meritorious Son-Daughter Scholarship Assistance Schemes among the beneficiaries present in the auditorium.
• The Chief Minister said that if a migrant worker dies, the state government will make arrangements to bring his dead body back to his home and the state government will bear the entire cost of the funeral. For this, corpus funds are being arranged in all the districts.
• To protect the migrant laborers of the state, the e-shram portal has been created by the government. The registration of migrant workers is done under this portal, so that the state government can provide them immediate help at the time of calamity.
• The Chief Minister said that in the recent past, the State Government had provided employment in the textile industry to the rescued girls and women from the states like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh etc. Two thousand appointment letters were distributed to the textile industry, of which 80% were women.