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PERNEM
Pernem Mamlatdar Anant Malik has stated that over 15,000 migrants are in Pernem taluka and 12,172 of them have registered their names to return to their native states.
According to figures from the Mamlatdar’s office, the migrants who have registered their names include from Bihar (2,000), Karnataka (1,972), Jharkhand (1,203), West Bengal (948), Himachal Pradesh (766), Jammu and Kashmir (234), Gujarat (91) and a number of migrants from Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh.
Most of the migrants in Pernem taluka are engaged in sand extraction activity, latrine stone quarries and construction works, while a number of migrants are involved in the tourism trade and other daily wage work.
Since they have been jobless during the lockdown, they have been unable to pay room rent and buy food and essential items.
May have preferred to return to their native states and engage in farming activity instead of struggling in Pernem taluka.
“The Goa government has been helping us but it not enough and so, we want to return to our native states,” said a migrant, Dhanajay Patil.
