Following the initiative taken and as directed by chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, relief material, including packets of food grain, grocery as well as masks and sanitizers were on Wednesday provided to more than 2.67 lakh needy people across the state.
Similarly, showing sensitivity towards the plights of migrant workers from different states across the country, stranded in the state, the Bhupesh Baghel-led Chhattisgarh government until now has extended help to more than 84,000 of them.
Extending help to stranded migrant workers, the state government has made arrangement for their lodging, meals, medical treatment and advanced salary, an official source said.
The state labour department has also set up relief camps in different places in the state to house the stranded migrant workers, the official said.
In these camps, 3,724 labourers of Chhattisgarh and 5, 940 from outside the state, have been housed, the official added.
The state government has provided meals and lodging facility for 9,664 labourers, the source said.
Among them, 1,436 are from Jharkhand, 1,345 from Madhya Pradesh, 630 from Uttar Pradesh, 388 from Bihar, 259 from Rajasthan, 243 from Maharashtra, 221 from Odisha, 183 from West Bengal and 84 from Telangana, the official said.
With the joint efforts of industrial houses in the state and the state government, lodging facility as well as meals is being arranged for 16,928 labourers 10,994 of who are from outside the state, the source added.
