COVID-19: Centre Rejuvenates Bhubaneswar Control Room For Migrant Workers

New Delhi: The Central government has rejuvenated 20 control rooms including one in Bhubaneswar to mitigate the problems of migrant workers through co-ordination with various state governments.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment, in a release, stated that in view of the resurgence of COVID-19 and subsequent imposition of certain restrictions by state governments, it has rejuvenated the control rooms set up in April 2020 under the Office of Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) across the country.

The workers can access these control rooms through email, mobile and Whatsapp. These control rooms are being managed by Labour Enforcement Officers, Assistant Labour Commissioners, Regional Labour Commissioners, and Deputy Chief Labour Commissioners of the respective regions.

The functioning of all call centers will be monitored by the Chief Labour Commissioner (C) at headquarters on daily basis. Lakhs of workers used this facility last year and got their grievances resolved.

Following are the details of officers/officials, helpline numbers and email ids of the control room in Bhubaneswar:

• Shakuntala Patnaik dyclcbbsr.od@nic,in 9818925073
• Harmandeep Singh alcbbsr.od@nic.in 9971279209
• Santosh Sethy rlckl.od@nic.in 8777544846
• Rajesh Kumar Gupta alccentral.od@nic.in 74896585
• Anil Kumar Jena anilmirjapur123@gmail.co 8910237856