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Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to 18 other Chief Ministers urging them to "shelter" and "take care of" migrant workers from Bengal who have been stuck because of the 21-day lockdown. Addressing the respective Chief Ministers, Banerjee has maintained the migrant labourers from the state are stuck all across and respective state governments should help them out, urging them "to provide basic shelter, food and medical support". In the same letter, Banerjee has assured all the Chief Ministers that people of their states, who are in Bengal right now, are also being taken care of by the state government. She wrote to the Chief Ministers of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. In a bid to battle Corona, various organisations and people from all walks of life have come forward to donate to the West Bengal Emergency Relief Fund..