$ 8 * $-9 % -9 % 9 # & #&( #&)*+ #%", *$ 67 3 267< 575)276= 0**6 6 652 5 ) <0 (0*6()(6567 250 7 5 5 65(6<5 0 <55*)7 0?)#+@#A 76 76 *)7 6 367 76) =76(6> ?6=66 #. #", :65 6%% $ ! !"#$ %& #'('()*'+ !" #$ %&" already been transported. The Kerala Government said 1.61 he Supreme Court on lakh wanted to stay TThursday gave two-week put. time to the Centre and the When Kerala’s counsel said States to complete the trans- that Railways is under the portation of all stranded K "# Central Government and they migrant workers to their native $%&' should take care of the cost of places and fixed June 9 as the $ return by migrants, the Bench date to pronounce its order on %% ( said that all States must make the issue. )* their own arrangements. A Bench headed by Justice The counsel appearing for Ashok Bhushan was hearing +, +#-./ Karnataka said that from May the matter in which it had % 3, the State has facilitated the esource-starved as it is, the dance with emerging and chang- taken suo motu cognisance on 0 ## +1-& return of over three lakh RGovernment will not start ing priorities,” the expenditure the plight of migrant workers % % $ migrant workers and if 15 any new schemes for a year, the department, under the Finance who were stranded across the 2 34 days time is given they will Finance Ministry said on Ministry, said adding that it has country due to the Covid-19 % facilitate the transportation of Friday making it clear that been receiving many new pro- lockdown. the rest. any spending will only be posals for in-principle approval The Centre informed the 5,1+ $ The lawyer said in past two allowed in the Prime Minister’s from various Ministries or court on Friday that around % 2 weeks, the number of migrant “Garib Kalyan Package” and the departments. All Ministries have one crore migrant workers % workers who want to go out of recent announcements made been told to stop sending across the country have already Karnataka has come down. under “the Atmanirbhar Bharat requests for new schemes to the reached their destination — Solicitor General Tushar The counsel appearing for workers were brought back in migrants has been done. The Solicitor General package”. No other scheme Finance Ministry. Spending will around 41 lakh by road trans- Mehta informed the Bench, Gujarat told the SC that out of Uttar Pradesh. It said they The counsel representing assured the apex court that the would be approved. Schemes only be allowed in the Prime port and 57 lakh by trains. also comprising Justices SK around 22 lakh migrant work- have sent back around 1.35 West Bengal said that around entire country is working in already approved under the Minister’s Garib Kalyan Package During the hearing, the Kaul and MR Shah, that so far ers in the State, 20.5 lakh have lakh migrants, who were in 3.97 lakh stranded migrants tandem and all demands and Budget will also stay suspend- and the announcements made advocates representing various 802 trains have been operated already been transported back. Uttar Pradesh, and 104 special are in the State and relief assistance required by the ed till March 31, 2021. under the Atmanirbhar Bharat States gave the figures of from Maharashtra for trans- Senior advocate PS trains were operated for camps were serving around States would be provided to The drastic move is to package, it said. migrant workers as per which, porting migrant workers. Narasimha, appearing for Uttar this. one lakh meals. The counsel them. tighten spending amid rising “No new proposals for a over 11 lakh and 20.5 lakh peo- Additional Solicitor Pradesh, said that around 5.50 The counsel appearing for said that West Bengal is more On May 28, the top court coronavirus cases with no clar- scheme/sub-scheme should be ple have gone back from General Sanjay Jain, repre- lakh migrants workers were the Bihar Government told of a receiving State and they had directed that the migrant ity on when the pandemic will initiated this year (2020-21) Maharashtra and Gujarat senting the Delhi Government, brought back into the State the court that around 28 lakh will provide every assistance workers wanting to return to peak in the country. except the proposals respectively. told the top court that around from Delhi borders for which migrant workers have returned which is needed to bring peo- their home States will not be “It may be appreciated that announced under the Pradhan Counsel appearing for two lakh workers are still in the buses made over 10,000 trips. to the State. The lawyer said ple back. charged train or bus fares and in the wake of the Covid-19 pan- Mantri Garib Kalyan Package, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh national Capital and only The State Government told that the Bihar Government is The counsel representing those stranded across the demic, there is an unprecedent- the Aatmanirbhar Bharat informed the SC they have so around 10,000 of them have the Bench that 1,664 Shramik taking steps to provide them Kerala said that around 4.34 country will be provided food ed demand on public financial Abhiyan package and any other far received 28 lakh and 21.69 expressed their desire to return trains were organised and employment and so far, skill lakh migrants were there and free of cost by the authorities resources and a need to use special package/announce- lakh migrants respectively. to their native places. around 21.69 lakhs migrant mapping of around 10 lakh over one lakh persons have concerned. resources prudently in accor- ment,” a Ministery note said. ! O P *)7 he famous Snan Yatra of TLord Jagannath and His siblings Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra and Chakraraj Sudarshan was celebrated in the Shreemandir here without presence of devotees on Friday. Limited numbers of servi- tors conducted the Snan Yatra rituals. It was for the first time that the festival was celebrated with- out participation of devotees and the Lions Gate wore a deserted look during the grand festival amidst prohibitory orders put in place under Section 144 CrPC to enforce Covid-19 restrictions. With multiple layers of Dhadi Pahandi to the Snan The Gajanana Besha deities for a fortnight. As per barricades, the temple’s sur- Mandap (bathing podium). (Elephant-Attired) of the tradition, the deities were taken rounding was sealed to prevent Earlier, the deities took Trinity began at about 11 am ill due to bath and taken to the entry of people. However, peo- bath with 108 pots of water and continued till 4 pm. Lords Anasar Ghar for treatment. ple enjoyed the Snan Yatra mixed with aromatic ingredi- Jagannath and Lord Balabhadra As many as 38 platoons of and paid obeisance to the lords ents. The water was collected were adorned with various art police were deployed to main- though television. The from Suna Kua (Golden Well) and craft pieces and flowers to tain law and Doordarshan (DD) aired the in the temple premises. look like elephants. order. DIG (Central Range) live telecast of the festival and The Chherapanhara Niti At 5 pm, the deities were Ashish Singh oversaw the secu- private channels shared the (sweeping of Snan Mandap escorted in the Bahuda rity arrangement. SJTA Chief signals through the GSAT-17. floors) was conducted by Pahandi (return sojourn) to Administrator Krishan Kumar The festival started from 1 Gajapti Maharaja Dibyasingha Anasar Ghar (quarantine and Puri district Collector am on Friday and continued till Deb’s Mudiratha in the home), a makeshift room espe- Balawant Singh and SP Uma night. All the deities came in Maharaja’s absence. cially built to accommodate the Shankar Dash were present. ! P ()(6567 Mayurbhanj districts, seven taking the total recoveries in (67 *66 each from Gajapati and the State to 1.604. he number of Covid-19 Sundargarh districts, four While 35 patients recov- 19- year-old physically- Tdeaths rose to eight in the each in Bahdrak and Bargarh ered in Ganjam district, 22 Achallenged girl was alleged- State when a 63-year-old man districts, 3 each in Balangir recovered in Cuttack, 14 in ly raped by a police Constable of Khordha district suc- and Kandhamal districts, two Nuapada, 14 from Balangir, in Mayurbhanj district on cumbed to the virus on in Dhenkanal district and 10 from Khordha, seven from Thursday night when she was Friday. alone at her residence. The deceased had been While the girl’s mother admitted to a Covid Hospital had gone to her parents’ house here. He was a chronic patient at Jashipur, her father, also a of diabetes and other under- police Constable, was on lying health conditions, the Covid-19 duty at Health and Family Welfare Baripada. Department said. Police have registered a Meanwhile, 130 new pos- case under Sections 376 and itive cases were reported on 511 of IPC against the accused the day, taking the State’s Constable, whose suspension total to 2,608. Out of the has been ordered by new cases, 124 were from Mayurbhanj Superintendent of quarantine centres and six one each in Angul and Kandhamal, five from Police Smit Parmar. local contacts. Jagatsinghpur Koraput and four from The medical examinations The highest of 23 positive districts. Kendrapada. of both the accused and the vic- cases were reported from However, as many as 123 With this, the active cases tim were conducted at a Cuttack district followed by persons infected with the now stand at 994 while the Government hospital, police 22 each in Khordha and virus recovered on the day, death toll is eight.