Senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath on Saturday alleged migrants stranded in the coronavirus-induced lockdown were being charged for train tickets, contrary to claims made by the BJP-led governments at the Centre and here.
Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi, while addressing the media on May 23, talked about 'shramik' special trains that have brought migrant workers to the state.
On Saturday, Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Jayant Patil took to Twitter to laud the actor for his efforts and called him a real-life hero. Sonu Sood has organized multiple bus services for many migrant workers to reach their homes in UP, Karnataka, Jharkhand from Maharastra.
A home quarantined migrant labourer who returned from Maharashtra allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself on Friday in Musiwan village in the Kamasin police station area of Banda district in Uttar Pradesh.
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The first Nagaland-bound Shramik Special train from Chennai with 1,477 stranded people has reached the Dimapur railway station, an official said.
Action has been taken against Palghar tehsildar Sunil Shinde who allegedly abused and kicked a migrant who was waiting to collect token to board a train.
Sonu Sood couldn't help but laugh at a meme that hilariously sums up how the actor is ready to help anyone who wants to reach home.
The analysis of the 1049 registration details of the vehicles revealed that 31 of them were registered as autos/three-wheelers, 69 of them as ambulances/school buses/trucks and there were no details available for 70 vehicles.
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In the present situation, the number of special trains cannot be reduced, nor can the migrants be allowed to enter their villages without being quarantined. Local police and district authorities have a huge task on their hands right now.
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Rajasthan Government is operating Shramik special buses to send back migrant labourers to their native states.
Balika Vadhu star Shashank Vyas has written a poem on the plight of migrant labourers. Shashank shared the poem titled "Bas chal raha hai" on Instagram. The video features images of the migrant labourers with a voiceover by the actor.
A series of events over the past few days have shown how migrants have fallen prey to rumours leading to scenes of chaos in India’s most densely populous cities.
The migrant workers who reached at Mumbai's Borivali Railway station in the hope of getting back to their home state had to leave station as the two out of three Uttar Pradesh-bound 'Special Shramik' trains got cancelled.
From Mumbai to Delhi, migrants gather in large number at railway and bus station. The migrants said that now they neither have any job nor have anything to eat. They just want to go to their hometown.
The Union Railways Minister, Piyush Goyal on May 21 said that the West Bengal Government not actively cooperated with Railways Ministry to let migrant workers reached their home via special trains amid the coronavirus uncertainty.
Migrant workers gather outside Kandivali railway station to board train to UP
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