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• The SC dismissed a plea seeking direction for using resorts and hotels for migrant workers walking back to their native places amid lockdown.
• The bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and Deepak Gupta said that the court cannot force the govt to listen to all the ideas as people may come up with millions of ideas.
• SG Tushar Mehta appearing for the center said that state govts have already taken over buildings like schools and others to use them as a shelter for migrants.
• Earlier SC directed the center to ensure that migrant workers kept in shelter homes are given food and adequate medical aid.
• It had also asked the Centre to set up a portal within 24 for the dissemination of real-time information on COVID-19 pandemic to counter the panic and fear being spread through fake news.

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