3 Various dealing other with providing the measures needs basic of taken the amenities by lower viz., the Central strata food, of clean Government the society drinking in by water, medicines, etc. have been dealt with in the status report. Apart from the announcement of the relief package totalling Rs.1.70 lakh crore under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, the Status Report refers to other schemes which were formulated to ensure that the persons in need are taken care of. In the instant writ petitions, we are concerned about the migrant labourers who have started leaving their places of work for their home villages/towns located at distant places. For example, thousands of migrant labourers left Delhi to reach their homes in the States Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, by walking on the highways. We are informed that the labourers who are unemployed due to lock down were apprehensive about their survival. Panic was created by some fake news that the lock down would last for more than three months. The initial reaction of the State Governments and the Union Territories was to transport migrant labourers from their borders to their Affairs villages. has transportation Later, issued of on 29.03.2020 a Circular migrant labourers the Ministry prohibiting in overcrowded of movement buses Home as would cause more damage than help to the migrant labourers. The very idea of lock down was to ensure that the virus would not spread. It was felt that transportation of migrant labourers would aggravate the problem of spread of the Virus. In such view, the movement of

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