Shimla, July 15 -- Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Wednesday directed the officials to keep a strict vigil on arrival of migrant labourers particularly in industrial units.
While presiding over a meeting with Deputy Commissioners, Superintendents of Police and Chief Medical Officers of the State through video conferencing from Shimla, Mr Thakur said his government had decided that industrialists or their contractors in the industrial area would be allowed to bring labourers after due approval of the administration and would be kept in quarantine as per guidelines issued by the Health Department.
He said that big industrial units will have to create adequate quarantine capacity, whereas small units can pool for creating...