Keeping an eye on the Surat crisis when migrants made protest for food and severely beaten up by the police and jailed, I would like to highlight an important point which needs to be understood. Migrants are not able to reach out to public provisioning without having domicile status or formal documentation in the destination locations. The workers are duped on all sides, surviving on meager incomes and excluded from public welfare schemes. They are left out of getting basic civic amenities from welfare schemes at destination states as migrants consider as non-residents there. The government of Gujarat’s approach to migrant workers is visible in this Covid 19 crisis. The major odia workforce who played a most important role in the economy of Gujarat over the last several decades, they presently face such inhuman conditions when they run for food due to hunger as the destination government treat them as outsiders and strange workers and doesn’t care about their hunger pains, health safety and life risk.

In 2019, these four Labour Code reform bills were introduced by the government in the Lok Sabha on 23rd July, which stirred up sharp reactions from different stakeholders. While the Parliament passed the Code on Wages Bill 2019, the remaining three codes are in the different phases of the legislation process. The labour code on wages was approved by Parliament in August while the code on occupational safety, health and working conditions has been referred to the parliamentary standing committee on labour. The Industrial Relations Code Bill, 2019, has been tabled in Parliament. The Social Security Code is the last of the four labour codes that have been approved by the Cabinet. It is important to understand that the government is trying to attack all workers in the country in the name of simplifying laws.