The Rajasthan government has moved 390 people to institutional quarantine for violating home quarantine orders.
As a policy, the state government is asking migrants from other states to quarantine themselves at home. Whereas it is mandatory for NRIs to stay in institutional quarantine centres.
More than 12.10 lakh migrants have returned to the state so far and almost 4 lakh have completed mandatory quarantine. The state has put 7 lakh 8 thousand migrants in home quarantine.
Only those migrants from other states which find it hard to home quarantine, are provided institutional quarantine besides those who are mandatorily put into institutional quarantine if they have any symptoms of Covid-19 or fever. More severe cases are shifted to isolation facilities in hospitals.
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot set up a committee to look after migrants and their quarantine on May 13. Veenu Gupta, Additional Chief Secretary, PWD and Chairperson RSRDCL has been made to head this committee.
Gupta said the state runs 10,212 quarantine centres which house 34,000 migrants. Such quarantine centres have been set up in schools, gram panchayat and hostels near the villages of migrants. The gram panchyat, district administration and philanthropists arrange for food at quarantine centres but migrants can also get food from their homes.
Rajasthanis mostly go for work in Gujarat, Maharastra and southern states. Those in Gujarat were quick to return after the first lockdown to home districts in Udaipur, Dungarpur, Banswara and Rajsamand.
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