LUCKNOW: As part of the Uttar Pradesh government’s policy to bring back migrant workers from other states, 2,224 of them returned from Haryana on Saturday.Another about 9,500 will be brought back till Sunday. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath has set up a committee and directed his officials to prepare a plan for creating at least 15 lakh jobs in rural Uttar Pradesh to meet the rush of about 5-10 lakh persons who are being expected to return to the state over the next two months.“The people who returned from Haryana in 82 buses on Saturday belong to 16 districts in the state and have been taken to their respective district headquarters for institutional quarantine,” additional chief secretary (home) Awanish Awasthi said. After 14 days, each person would be given a ration kit, Rs 1,000 and sent home where they will remain in home quarantine for another 14 days.Another official said that the government had reached out to other states as well and as soon as any of them had their logistical issues in order, UP would initiate the process to bring back workers from there as well. “Haryana’s records were absolutely in order. A lot of people were in quarantine in the state and they had names and numbers for everyone. That is why we were able to bring back people so soon. However, we are now waiting for other states to respond as the CM is very clear that only those who have been in quarantine for 14 days will be allowed to return,” the official said.The state has more than 30 lakh registered unemployed persons and is expecting about 10 lakh more in the coming months. While the government says that it would be able to use many of them for the several infrastructure and industrial projects that are ongoing or will be taken up in the coming days, the CM has asked for a plan on providing employment to at least 15 lakh persons.As part of that strategy, he has asked for MNREGA projects to be pushed. Awasthi said that 44,478 projects are going on in 18,823 gram panchayats, employing 4,23,231 persons. He added that it was due to the return of over 2 lakh migrant labours from other states that for the first time, there was no shortage of labour in harvesting wheat and sugarcane this year.Manoj Kumar, principal secretary, Panchayati Raj, has been directed to take forward the work of MNREGA and village development through village heads. The CM has also said that MSMEs should be encouraged as there is “no danger of infection spreading through these works”.