<span style="color: #222222;">In Maharashtra, migrant workers travelling to their home states will have to seek medical certificate from the local municipal corporation hospitals or clinics, before they apply for pass for inter-state travel, from the local police station.<br />''<br />''These passes will also be issued to people and students from other states stuck in Maharashtra following the nation-wide lockdown since March 24.<br />''<br />''About 100 people, mostly migrant workers, from suburban Dahisar and south Mumbai, were on Sunday permitted to travel to their native states Rajasthan and Gujarat in five buses.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports, through a circular issued by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation administration, it has been informed that the medical clearance certificate will be issued only to people not suffering from any influenza-like symptoms.<br />''<br />''Similarly, registered private doctors too can issue these certificates. This clearance certificate will be issued through 4 main hospitals, 16 suburban hospitals and 174 clinics on producing a government issued identity card.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the state government has written to the Railway Ministry not to charge train fare from migrant workers travelling as they are already suffering the brunt of lockdown.<br />''<br />''Of the total 441 positive cases in Mumbai in last 24 hours, Dharavi slum sprawl alone has reported 94 new cases and 2 deaths taking the overall cases in the slum to 590.</span><br />
News On AIR | May 4, 2020 9:00 AM
Maharashtra: Migrant workers travelling to their home states must submit medical certificate