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Coronavirus: Bhaichung Bhutia offers shelter to migrant workers of Sikkim

'I've offered any migrant worker who does not have any house to stay there. We will also provide them some basic ration. I'm also working with the local authorities to see how it can be done. We can support and work together,' Bhaichung Bhutia said amid the 21-day lockdown due to coronavirus (COVID-19)

Coronavirus Bhaichung Bhutia offers shelter migrant workers Sikkim
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Kolkata, First Published Mar 31, 2020, 10:50 AM IST

Kolkata: Indian football icon Bhaichung Bhutia has offered shelter to migrant workers of Sikkim to tackle the ongoing crisis arising out of the 21-day nationwide lockdown in the wake of the Covid19 pandemic.

Migrant workers of unorganised sectors, desperate to return home, have been badly hit after the lockdown was imposed from midnight on Tuesday (March 31).

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"The people who are affected the most during the lockdown are migrant workers. There was a huge queue on the Sikkim border yesterday. I've got a new unfinished building in Gangtok (Lumsey, Tadong). It should accommodate about 100 people," Bhutia told PTI.

"I've offered any migrant worker who does not have any house to stay there. We will also provide them some basic ration. I'm also working with the local authorities to see how it can be done. We can support and work together."

Bhutia further said he's in touch with the local administration to arrange for medical services.

"Not a single case of corona positive as of now. So that they (migrant workers) are safe from corona. Doctors can also check. We are trying to request the government. At least they will be safe from the coronavirus in the house when the borders have been shut and locked. They are badly hit they don't have anywhere to go."

Bhutia also posted this on his official Facebook page with a phone number of his club United Sikkim's senior manager Arjun Rai. "He can be contacted on 9434117465 for any help regarding the issue," the post read.

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