Jharkhand, which has a significant percentage of labourers who move out of the state for work, will enter into an agreement with nine states for the welfare of these migrant workers.

• The decision of the state labour department was approved by the Hemant Soren-led cabinet on Friday evening in Ranchi. 
• The states or Union Territory, which will ink the agreement with the Jharkhand labour department are Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Telangana, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.
• The labour department of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh (before bifurcation into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) had entered into an agreement in 2011-12 for migrant labourers from Odisha working in the brick kilns of Andhra Pradesh. 
• According to the data available with the state migrant control room, there are over 15 lakh registered migrant workers from Jharkhand in other states. However, the number of unregistered migrant workers is close to 50 lakh, according to the Economic Survey 2017.