Dikhyaa Mohanty 
A two-day South Asia Labour Mobility Conference has been held under the joint auspices of the Royal Government of Bhutan and the World Bank. Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo, Deputy Chief Minister of Odisha and Chairman of the Task Force for Migrant Workers, participated from India. Leading economists from South Asia, including the World Bank, attended the conference and delivered their speeches. While attending the conference, the Deputy Chief Minister discussed with Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonchhoen Tshering Tobgay to work together in all possible ways.
On this occasion, Deputy Chief Minister Singh Deo said that the Migration is a multifaceted reality that greatly affects the quality of life and economic growth of the people. In India, about 10 crore workers migrate to other places every year, usually for one to six months. According to the census data, about 139 million have migrated within India. Due to migration, most of them are deprived of various welfare schemes in their own region. To address the problems they face in their places of migration, the Inter-State Migrant Workers Act has been enacted and implemented since 1979.
Odisha is home to 42 million people, according to the 2011 census. The Odisha government has taken several important actions in response to the identification of 14 of these districts as migrant-prone. whereby significant measures have been implemented to counteract the exploitative advance payment system, regulate the informal recruiting chain, raise awareness about informed migration, improve skill development connections, strive toward interstate service portability, etc.
He has also brought the attention of the international community to the fund’s provisions, migrant labor support offices in several states, and district-level emergency relief funds of Rs. 15 lakhs apiece. Additionally, he stated that the PAReSHRAM site offers 67 online services, including migrant worker registration.
