Consider if migrant workers can return home within state: HC

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the Maharashtra government to consider if stranded migrant labourers can travel back home within the state after undergoing medical tests. Justice R K Deshpande made the suggestion while hearing two petitions raising concerns about the condition of migrant workers and daily wage labourers amid the coronavirus pandemic. The court said the government can consider permitting such workers to return to their native places within the state, as it would ease the burden on the administration. Before permitting such travel, medical tests could be conducted so that they would not thus spread the disease in rural areas which are by and large unaffected so far, the court said. (PTI)