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A migrant worker from Meghalaya who worked at a restaurant in Agra allegedly committed suicide on Monday.

As per reports, police officials found that he had hanged himself at his rented house in the city.

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The man, identified as Aldrin Lyngdoh, in a Facebook post, had accused his employer of not supporting him during the 21-day nationwide lockdown period that has been imposed by the Central Government in an attempt to control the spread of coronavirus.

He had also stated that he had been a thief in his youth in Shillong and had decided to move out of the city in search of a better life.

Many of the migrant workers had to remain stranded after the lockdown was imposed.

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The Home Ministry has recently written to the states/UTs to take measures to create relief shelters with all basic amenities and mitigate economic hardships to prevent movement of a large number of migrant workers to their domicile States, so as to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

It has also instructed State/UT Governments to ensure adequate arrangements of temporary shelters, and provision of food for the poor and needy people, including migrant labourers, stranded due to lockdown measures in their respective areas.