Lockdown 2.0: Maharashtra Govt allowed over a 1 Lakh sugarcane workers to go back to their homes

In what could turn out to be the biggest evacuation plan within the State, the Maharashtra government on Friday decided to allow over one lakh migrant sugarcane workers to return to their native villages.As per the guidelines signed by Chief Secretary Ajoy Mehta, over 1 lakh migrant labourers and their families, who work in 38 sugar factories, are unable to go to their native districts due to the nationwide lockdown in place to curb the spread of novel coronavirus. These workers have been living in temporary shelters in the sugar mills.