Legal Framework for Protection of Migrants

The ‘Working Group on Migration’ set by the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation 2015 has recommended necessary legal and policy framework to protect the interests of the migrants in the country, stating that the migrant population makes substantial contribution to economic growth and their Constitutional rights need to be secured.

The Recommendations

• The Protocols of the Registrar General of India needs to be amended to enable caste based enumeration of migrants so that they can avail the attendant benefits in the States to which migration takes place.
• Migrants should be enabled to avail benefits of Public Distribution System (PDS) ....