Bengal Government Labourers Data Bank

The West Bengal government is preparing a data bank of all migrant workers of various skill sets, who have returned from different states during the pandemic, Firhad Hakim, West Bengal’s urban development and municipal affairs minister, said. “The real estate sector can take advantage of the databank to resolve the crisis of shortage of labour caused due to shifting of workers to their native places. But with a major section of migrant labours now returning to the state, the industry can engage them to build infrastructure. This human resource can be converted into assets,” Hakim, who is also the mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, said. The minister emphasised on cluster developments and boosting of industrial parks for retaining the workers. He said many workers move to different parts to work in gem and jewellery, food processing sectors but if they can be engaged in the industrial parks here, it would add up to the manpower base of the state and in turn would draw huge investments.v