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IN RE: PROBLEMS AND MISERIES OF MIGRANT LABOURERS versus IN RE: PROBLEMS AND MISERIES OF MIGRANT LABOURERS

Citation: [2022] 6 S.C.R. 1089 · Decided: 21-07-2022 · Supreme Court of India · Bench: M.R. SHAH · Disposal: Directions issued

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IN RE: PROBLEMS AND MISERIES OF MIGRANT
LABOURERS
(Miscellaneous Application No. 94 of 2022 in
Suo Motu Writ Petition (Civil) No. 6 of 2020)
JULY 21, 2022
[M. R. SHAH AND B. V. NAGARATHNA, JJ.]
Migrant Labourers – Problems and Miseries of – In
compliance of directions issued by Supreme Court, Ministry of
Labour and Employment developed a “National Database of
Unorganised Workers (NDUW) portal” and “eShram portal” for
registration of unorganised workers including migrant workers
spread over 400 occupations – Some States such as State of
Maharashtra, State of Tamil Nadu, State of Telangana, State of
Gujarat and State of Karnataka failed to achieve the target –
Therefore, directions issued to those States, who have not been able
to achieve the target for registration of the unorganised workers,
to do so and cooperate with the Union of India – Ministry of labour
and Employment and to ensure that unorganised labourers/ workers
in different sectors are registered in the eShram portal – The exercise
to be completed within a period of six weeks – The concerned States
/Union Territories to submit the report to the Union of India –
Ministry of Labour and Employment on completion of six weeks so
that the Union of India – Ministry of Labour and Employment can
file a further Status Report on the aforesaid – Union of India further
directed to come out with a formula and/or appropriate policy/
scheme, if any, so that the benefits under National Food Security
Act are not restricted as per the census 2011 and more and more
needy persons/citizens get the benefit under the National Food
Security Act, keeping in mind that “Right to Food” is a fundamental
right available under Article 21 of the Constitution – Union
Government may look into the same by considering the figures/
projection of population increase during the decade 2011-2021,
which would be on an assessment of increase in population and file
response on the next date of hearing.
CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION: Miscellaneous Application
No. 94 of 2022 in Suo Moto Writ Petition (Civil) No. 6 of 2020.
[2022] 6 S.C.R. 1089
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SUPREME COURT REPORTS
[2022] 6 S.C.R.
Under Article 32 of The Constitution of India
By Courts Motion
Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, ASG, Tapesh Kumar Singh, Gaurav
Liberhan, Anil Grover, Amit Anand Tiwari, AAGs, Mrs. Ankita
Chaudhary, Dy. AG, Dr. Mansh Singhvi, Ms. Manisha Lavkumar, Sr.
Advs., Prashant Bhushan, Ms. Cheryl D’Souza, Kanu Agrawal, Rajat
Nair, Saurabh Mishra, Krishnakant Dubey, Vatsal Joshi, Anuj Srinivas
Udupa, Aman Sharma, Manvendra Singh, Arvind Kumar Sharma, Amrish
Kumar, Sandeep Kumar Jha, Divyansh Tiwari, Ms. Nupur Kumar,
Raghvendra Kumar, Anand Kumar Dubey, Rajiv Kumar Sinha, Simanta
Kumar, Nishant Verma, Ms. Rajlakshmi Singh, Sunil Saraogi, Varun Singh,
Narendra Kumar, Ms. Uttara Babbar, Rituraj Biswas, Rahul Chitnis,
Sachin Patil, Aaditya A. Pande, Geo Joseph, Ms. Shewtal Shepal, G.
Prakash, Tapesh Kumar Singh, Sukant Vikram, Aditya Pratap Singh,
Aditya Narayan Das, M. Shoeb Alam, Satya Mitra, Kumar Anurag Singh,
Anando Mukherjee, Shwetank Singh, Raj Kishor Choudhary,
Dr. Abhishek Atrey, Ms. Ambika Atrey, Akash Giri, Krishnan Mishra,
R.K. Rathore, Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Ms. Samten Doma, Avijit Mani
Tripathi, Upendra Mishra, K.V. Kharlyngdoh, T.K. Nayak, P.S. Negi, S.
R. Kochhar, Ms. Marbiang Khongwir, B. V. Balaram Das, Ejaz Maqbool,
Sumeer Sodhi, Abhishek Lalwani, Debashish Tiwari, Mahfooz Ahsan
Nazki, Polanki Gowtham, Shaik Mohamad Haneef, T. Vijaya Bhaskar
Reddy, K.V. Girish Chowdary, Ms. Rajeswari Mukherjee, Pranav
Sachdeva, S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Ms. Sweena Nair, P. Mohith Rao,
Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Karun Sharma, Ms. Anupam Ngangom,
Wahengbam Immanuel Meitei, Ms. Pinky Behera, Ashish Yadav, Vishal
Banshal, Ms. Rajeshwari Sarkar, Subhranshu Padhi, Chirag M. Shroff,
Amandeep Mehta, Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, Shadan Farasat, Ramesh
Thakur, Mrs. Mrinal Elker Mazumdar, Ms. Himanshi Shakya, Raj
Bahadur Yadav, Ms. Noopur Singhal, Rahul Khurana, Satish Kumar,
Suresh Kumar Bhan, Sanjay Kumar Visen, Manish Kumar, Harsh
Choudhary, Abhimanyu Tewari, Ms. Eliza Bar, Ms. Taruna Ardhendumauli
Prasad, Ms. G. Indira, Suhaan Mukerji, Nikhil Parikshith, Vishal Prasad,
Abhishek Manchanda, Sayandeep Pahari, Tanmay Sinha, for M/s. PLR
Chambers and Co., Karan Bharihoke, Abhinav Mukerji, Mrs. Bihu
Sharma, Akshay C. Srivastava, Ms. Pratishtha Vij, Ms. Ruchira Goel,
Sibo Sankar Mishra, Ms. Kanika Chugh, Umakant Mishra, Rajesh Ku

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