Jharkhand became the first state to bring stranded labourers home in a chartered flight on Thursday, the chief minister’s office noted, with 180 migrant workers stranded in Mumbai flown to Ranchi in an AirAsia flight which landed at Birsa Munda Airport here at 8.30am.
The one-of-a-kind initiative would not have been successful without the efforts of a group of graduates from National Law School (NLS), Bengaluru that reportedly gathered Rs11 lakh via crowdfunding so far to help migrant labourers during the ongoing crisis.
These law graduates approached the Maharashtra government and Jharkhand government to execute their plan of flying stranded migrants home, an English daily in Mumbai reported.
