Shimla DM: Verificationof migrant labourers mandatory

SHIMLA: District magistrate Anupam Kashyap on Tuesday issued orders making it clear that no employer, contractor and trader will engage any migrant labourer coming to Shimla district for informal job or service or contract labour until the migrant labourers submit their details along with photograph in the concerned police station.

"Such violators and their employers will be penalized under Section 223 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) 2023," says the district magistrate's order.

This order will come into immediate effect and will remain in force for the next two months.

The order underlines that no person visiting Shimla district shall engage in any kind of self-employment, non-formal trade, services or search for employment without informing the concerned police station in-charge to about it.

The district magistrate issues such orders as an emergency measure from time to time under BNSS, 2023 for a two-month period, said officials.

Hindu organisations have been protesting at various places in Himachal Pradesh for the past few weeks seeking mandatory verification of the antecedents of migrants entering the hill state for business or work.

As per the order, no employer, contractor and trader will engage any migrant labourer coming to district Shimla in small non-formal job or service or contract labour until such migrant labourers go to the SHO in the concerned police station and submit their details along with passport size photo.