Scores of migrant workers gathered at the Amritsar railway station to return to their native places amid the rising fear of complete lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Three people died after a bus carrying migrants to Chhatarpur and Tikamgarh from Delhi, overturned in Jorasi of Gwalior district.
Earlier on Monday, Kejriwal announced a six-day complete lockdown in Delhi to deal with the rising number of COVID-19 cases as the city's health system was stretched to its limits.
Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday tweeted, "Migrants are again moving back, so this is the responsibility of the union government to transfer money to their accounts. Will the government, which is blaming the public for the spread of the Covid, take such a public welfare work."
Delhi government has imposed a six-day complete lockdown to deal with the rising number of COVID-19 cases.
Amid fear of rising COVID-19 cases and possibility of lockdown extension, Migrant workers thronged Delhi's Anand Vihar Bus Terminal.
Amid fear of rising COVID-19 cases and possibility of lockdown extension, migrant workers are heading to their hometowns. In order to avoid the hardships faced during the previous nationwide lockdown, migrant workers are not willing to take the risk of staying back.
Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal announced a week-long lockdown due to prevailing COVID-19 situation in the national capital starting from 10 pm, April 19 to 5 am April 26.
Similarly, govt has also ramped up surveillance at airports, railway stations and bus stops. Those with symptoms are being tested while others are being asked to quarantine at home.
The country is reeling under second wave of COVID-19 pandemic. Restrictions have been imposed differently in several states. Amid this, government control room set up in Ranchi for counselling migrant labourers has reported an increase in queries as migrants are in dilemma. Control room head, Shika Pankaj informed ANI that migrants are not sure about coming to their hometown or staying back amid restrictions in several states. "The fear in them is evident but they are not able to take a decision," Shika added.
The Railway Protection Force and the Government Railway Police have deployed additional force outside the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) to control the crowd.
Soon after Maharashtra government announced strict restrictions including Section 144 to contain COVID-19 spread from April 14, migrant workers started to return to their hometowns.
The Railway administration, however, attributed the passenger rush to the summer season which sees a large number of people travelling to their native places.
Covid-19 restrictions in Mumbai have forced migrant workers to return home. Long-distance trains departing from Mumbai railway stations are heavily packed with migrant workers.
With night curfews, stringent daytime restrictions and a weekend lockdown imposed across the state, migrants from different parts of India are in a state of semi-panic.
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