Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren interacts with a migrant worker as he arrives at Birsa Munda International Airport in Ranchi. (PTI)Border Roads Organisation will recruit nearly 12,000 workers from Jharkhand and the first batch of 1,500 will leave Dumka on Friday. She added that block development officers would act as nodal officers for registration of workers at the block level. Since 1970s, labourers from Santhal Pargana have moved out of the state to work for road construction projects of the BRO twice every year. Migration from Santhal Pargana has a long history, beginning around 1860 when around 1 lakh people, mostly tribals from the present-day Jharkhand, were taken to tea gardens in Assam as indentured labourers.

Source: The Telegraph June 10, 2020 21:11 UTC