At least 9 labourers dead and several injured after a truck and a bus collided in Naugachhia, Bhagalpur. The truck in which the labourers were travelling, fell off the road following the collision. The rescue operation is underway.
Nearly 100 migrant workers gathered on a busy road connecting IIM Ahmedabad with Vastrapur area here on Monday and pelted stones at police and people passing by during the lockdown, an official said. A local claimed the migrant workers were demanding that they be allowed to go back to their native places.
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Sunday ordered issuing job cards to migrant workers returning to the state from different parts of the country due to the coronavirus lockdown.
"Did he remember migrant labourers only after 50 days? Our government, at Centre and in states, has been arranging food, trains for them... He met them just for photo-op. There should be some sensitivity," said Union Minister RK Singh
As many as 23 labourers from Rajasthan died and 13 others were injured on Saturday after the truck they were travelling in, collided with another truck in UP's Auraiya. Meanwhile, the injured have been shifted to a hospital.
As many as 24 labourers from Rajasthan died and 13 others were injured on Saturday after the truck they were travelling in, collided with another truck in UP's Auraiya. Meanwhile, the injured have been shifted to a hospital. Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath took to Twitter and said that all the victims will be given adequate relief facilities.
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A migrant labourer was killed while another was seriously injured when a car hit them on the Ambala-Jagadhri highway near Ambala Cantonment on Tuesday morning, police said.
Sujit Singh, an auto driver from Mumbai's Vakola area said he left for Uttar Pradesh in a group of about 50 auto-rickshaws from their area on Saturday and on Monday morning reached Madhya Pradesh, travelling via Nashik.
Yet another disturbing news of labourers dying has come from Patha village of Narsinghpur, MP. A truck carrying labourers from Hyderabad to Uttar Pradesh overturned in Narsinghpur. In the accident, 5 labourers have died while another 11 have gotten injured.
Referring to the 'Shramik Special' trains being run by the central government to facilitate the transport of migrant workers from different parts of the country to various destinations, Amit Shah said in the letter that the Centre has facilitated more than two lakh migrants workers to reach home.
Bihar on Friday reported a total of 29 COVID-19 positive cases. The infected migrant labourers in Bihar hail from Samastipur, Khagaria, Saharsa, Bhagalpur, Banka and East Champaran.
The train was moving at a slow speed towards Sitapur around 5 am when the five labourers hailing from Shahjahanpur jumped from it, SHO, Government Railway Police (GRP), Ajit Kumar Singh said.
The Mumbai police on Thursday intercepted three trucks carrying 160 migrant labourers from the city to Utttar Pradesh, an official said. Drivers of the three trucks and another person were boooked for violation of lockdown, said an official of the RAK Marg police station.
Migrant labourers who were protesting in Kerala's Ernakulam that they be sent back to their native places were lathicharged by cops on Thursday.
The Karnataka government has withdrawn its request to the railways to run special trains to ferry migrant labourers to their home states, hours after builders met Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa to apprise him of the problems to the construction sector in case they left.
Accusing the ruling BJP government of cheating hundreds of migrant workers by first over-charging and collecting single journey fare from them, the Karnataka Congress donated Rs 1 crore to the state-run transport service to send the stranded workers to their native place free, a party official said on Sunday.
The 24-coach train departed at 10 pm on Friday from Jaipur and reached the Danapur railway station around 2 pm.
Around 1,000 migrant labourers, mostly from northern parts of India, came on to the streets in Maharashtra's Chandrapur on Saturday to demand that arrangements be made for their return to the native places, police said.
The movement of migrant labourers will not be possible during the second phase of lockdown in India, an official of the Home Ministry said Wednesday.
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