W.B. CM publicizes scheme for migrant employees going through harassment in different States

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday (August 18, 2025) introduced a brand new scheme to supply month-to-month money incentives to migrant employees who return to the State after going through harassment in different States.

Speaking to journalists on the State Secretariat, Ms. Banerjee stated the scheme shall be referred to as Shramashree and can present a month-to-month stipend of ₹5,000 to such migrant employees for as much as one yr until they get a job.

The Chief Minister stated the migrant employees and their households will get advantages of different schemes of the State authorities as properly, together with ration playing cards and Swastha Sathi free healthcare scheme playing cards.

“All 22,40,000 employees who’re exterior Bengal will get the advantages of Shramshree. Those who haven’t registered their names will have the ability to register their names,” Ms. Banerjee stated.

The Chief Minister stated about 10,000 individuals have returned to the State up to now few months after being focused in numerous States.

“The variety of those that have returned to the State in the previous few days is about 10,000. If they register their names on the Shramshree portal, they are going to be given a card. As a end result, they’ll entry amenities of the State authorities,” Ms. Banerjee stated.

Hundreds of Bengali-speaking migrants have confronted detention and harassment in numerous States throughout the nation and had been requested to provide paperwork to show that they weren’t Bangladeshi nationals. Some of the employees from West Bengal have stated they had been deported to Bangladesh however later repatriated with the assistance of Indian authorities.

Despite harassment, many migrant employees have returned to their workplace, saying there are not any employment alternatives in West Bengal. The Trinamool has stated that the migrant employees have been focused for talking in Bengali and has launched a “language motion”.

AIIMS Kalyani survey

The Chief Minister additionally alleged that the door-to-door psychological well being survey, performed by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani (AIIMS Kalyani) was an “oblique” method of facilitating the National Register of Citizenship (NRC) within the State.

“In the identify of a psychological well being survey, AIIMS Kalyani is not directly surveying for the NRC. If any organisation reaches your own home within the identify of a survey, please confirm it with the State authorities first,” Ms. Banerjee stated. The Chief Minister additionally urged the individuals to be alert and never share particulars with anyone apart from officers of the State authorities.

Officials of the AIIMS Kalyani, which is positioned in State’s Nadia district, stated it has been conducting the research in seven districts of West Bengal as a part of the second section of the National Mental Health Survey (NMHS), underneath the steering of a senior official of the State authorities’s Health and Family Welfare Department.