About 944 migrant workers stranded in Shopian district in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir have been provided every possible assistance by the Labour Department. They have been accommodated at five different locations of the district.<br />''<br />''<span style="font-style: italic;">AIR correspondent reports, immediately after the announcement of lockdown in Kashmir valley, Labour Department in district Shopian has mobilized all the available resources and started depositing relief amount directly into the accounts of the registered labourers. In the first phase, the department has disbursed  Rs. 23 lakh and 65 thousand  rupees which was aimed to ease the financial constraints of this class of society.<br />''<br />''As a second installment, the department has released  23 lakhs and 48 thousand rupees into the accounts of these labourers while in 3rd phase, Rs. 23 lakh and 74 thousand rupees stands transferred into the accounts of these beneficiaries through Direct Benefit Transfer mode thereby benefitting  2,490 active workers.</span><br />''<span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic;"><br />''</span><span style="font-style: italic;">The three installments of relief worth Rs 70 lakh and 87 thousand rupees released into the accounts of these beneficiaries for the month of March, April and May has helped the workers to purchase ration and other essential commodities and that too when the covid situation had resulted into the loss of livelihood of the workers.</span><br />