Panaji, July 25: Expressing sound concerns over the migrant labourers arriving in Goa in large numbers, the State Assembly headed by CM Pramod Sawant ordered the District Collector to probe into the mass advent.
This is after an Independent MLA in the Assembly raised issue, referring to a video of migrant labourers crossing the over bridge at Khorlim Railway Station in North Goa district, that had gone viral earlier this week.
"When a train full of labourers arrives in Goa, there is fear. Labourers come to Goa for work and then they get a plot of land with the help of elements in panchayats, they build a house and become voters”, MLA Rohan Khaunte said.
"Where they have come from, what are their antecedents, all this needs to be checked”, he added. CM Sawant meanwhile said that he had asked the District Collector to probe by the train number 12742, Patna-Vasco Express, and their whereabouts thereafter.
“Also the revenue officers of villages Thivim, Colvale and Sirsaim have been asked to conduct an inquiry where Mamlatdar of Bardez has asked the officials to submit their reports by July 29”, CM Sawant added.