An online Dashboard-National Migrant Information System (NMIS) has been developed by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). The central online repository aims to capture the information regarding the movement of migrants and facilitate the smooth movement of stranded persons across States.
NMIS was developed after the Government of India allowed the movement of migrant workers by buses and Shramik special trains to enable them to travel to their native places.
The online portal will maintain a central repository on migrant workers and help in speedy inter-State communication/co-ordination to facilitate their smooth movement to native places.
NMIS has additional advantages like contact tracing, which may be useful in overall COVID-19 response work.
The key data pertaining to the persons migrating has been standardized for uploading such as name, age, mobile number, originating and destination district, date of travel, etc., which States are already collecting.
States will be able to visualize how many people are going out from where and how many are reaching destination States.
The mobile numbers of people can be used for contact tracing and movement monitoring during COVID-19.
