Under this project, the Committee assisted the migrant labourers in reaching their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of migrant labourers who yearned to return to their home states but lacked financial means to do so were assisted by the Committee in terms of basic necessities of proper food, shelter, and medical care. The Committee worked in collaboration with Prayas Center for Labour Research and Action [“CLRA”] that provided the Committee with a database containing contact information of approximately 19,000 migrant workers. These individuals were either in need of food supplies or stranded in Surat without transportation to Jharkhand. The Committee opted to reach out to these workers by personally contacting each of them. To facilitate this effort, a call for volunteers was issued to various law colleges and their respective Legal Aid Committees and Societies.
The response was substantial, resulting in 600 volunteers representing diverse institutions such as the National Law University, Jodhpur, and its alumni, Amity Law School, Noida, Chanakya National Law University, Patna, Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law Patiala, Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, and National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. All the Legal Aid Committees and Centres collectively led a campaign to assist migrant labourers in reaching their homes and accessing basic requirements of food ration and medicines. In collaboration with the CLRA, the Committee facilitated the transportation of over 1600 stranded migrant workers to Jharkhand from Surat and Ahmedabad by requesting the administrative authorities to administrative authorities to organize an urgent Shramik train.