New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday expressed its disappointment over the Centre's inability in developing a national database that would record the unorganised workers and observed that it cannot be left to bureaucrats as they have not done anything since October last year when the project was sanctioned. The Centre told the top court that nearly four months more will be required to develop the software to which the court said that they are not doing a nationwide survey, it's just a database and it should not be needing that much time.
The bench comprising of Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice MR Shah was hearing a suo moto case on miseries and problems of migrants during the pandemic. The court questioned the Centre on what has it been doing to reach the workers who do not have ration cards and if the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan scheme can be temporarily extended to those who do not have ration cards as states have no scheme for unorganised migrants.
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