The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) on Friday announced that no ticket fares will be charged from migrant labourers when buses are made available for dropping them at the city railway stations for their journey to their home states.
After sending numerous migrant workers to their hometowns across the nation, actor Sonu Sood has now airlifted over 170 girls stuck in Kerala amid the coronavirus lockdown.
After Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Jayant Patil, Maharashtra governor hailed actor Sonu Sood for his good work and help in sending migrant workers to their home.
Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said the data provided by the Maharashtra government didn’t give complete information about the migrant workers and their destinations, which made it extremely difficult for the Railways to work out a final running plan
Service to humanity is service to god. Presently, when coronavirus has given a huge blow to humanity, several individuals and organizations across India are coming forward to feed a number of hungry souls, irrespective of their caste and community.
In the time of COVID-19 crisis, Bollywood actor Sonu Sood has been working day in and day out to help arrange transportation for migrant workers to travel back to their hometowns. Recently, 46-year-old actor organized transport for to send the migrant workers of UP and Bihar back to their states.
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.
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.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra urged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday to allow her party to ply buses to ferry stranded migrants to their homes amid the coronavirus-triggered lockdown.
Veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher has shared a heart-touching video on social media in which he is seen reciting a poem about the plight of all the migrant workers trying to return to their native villages.
Hundreds of workers from Delhi are reportedly marching to Gurugram after Haryana resumes all its industries in the Udyog Vihar area.
Three migrant labourers and a bus driver were killed and 22 others injured after their vehicle hit a stationary truck in Maharashtra's Yavatmal district in the early hours of Tuesday, a police official said.
Three migrant women workers were killed and at least 12 were injured as their truck overturned on the Jhansi-Mirzapur highway in Uttar Pradesh last night. Injured have been admitted to nearby hospital.
Twenty migrant workers were injured when a mini-truck rammed into a truck in Ayodhya district on Monday morning.
The Indian Railways has operated 1,300 'Shramik Special' trains since May 1, ferrying more than 17 lakh workers, it said on Sunday.
As hundreds of migrant workers returning to Bihar from other parts of the country, chief minister Nitish Kumar has urged them keep patience and said arrangements will be made to ferry them to their respective destinations.
The UP State Roadways Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) has started deploying buses in various districts of Uttar Pradesh to carry migrants to their respective destinations.
The Centre said that the move would provide significant relief to the migrants across the country who are seeking to go to their home states
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