Laptop proves a lifesaver

Armed with a laptop and a mobile hotspot, an IT professional from Birbhum claims to have helped over one lakh migrant workers during the Covid-19-induced lockdown.

Sadekul Islam, 28, who works in an IT firm in Calcutta, had to return home in Birbhum’s Muraroi during the lockdown.

With help from friends Mohammed Noor Alam and Nasiruddin Ansari in Muraroi, Sadekul set up a network of contacts — mainly phone numbers and email ids of government officials — on his laptop that he said helped over 7,000 workers return home in Birbhum and over a lakh stranded workers get food.