Call to aid: NLSIU alumni launch an initiative to provide food, water to 1 lakh Migrant Workers boarding Shramik trains

The initiative kicked off on June 3, in partnership with the Akshaya Patra Foundation, with a train carrying about 2,000 migrant passengers from Gurgaon to Odisha. Donations for the initiative will carry tax exemptions.

Call for aid

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05 Jun 2020, 5:52 am

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Alumni of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore in association with NGO Akshaya Patra have come together to help migrant workers stranded amid the COVID-19 lockdown safely reach their home states.

To this end, funds are being pooled to ensure that migrant workers board shramik trains back home with sufficient food and water.

The collective's ground-level work started on June 3, with a train carrying about 2,000 migrant passengers from Gurgaon to Balasore, Odisha.

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