Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday interacted with a group of migrant labourers in New Delhi. Gandhi was sitting on the footpath near the Sukhdev Vihar flyover and speaking with the migrant labourers about their ordeal. Gandhi asked Congress workers to make arrangements for the return of the migrant workers.
Determined to reach their homes, migrant workers began their treacherous journey from Nagpur.
The first 'Shramik' special train from Ghaziabad left for Bihar's Muzaffarpur on Friday with 1,420 stranded migrant workers onboard, officials said. The special train with a total of 22 coaches left around 9 pm from Ghaziabad old railway station.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday addressed the concerns of the migrant workers amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis in India. Announcing the second tranche of the Rs 20 lakh crore package, the finance minister said that the government will launch a scheme under PMAY for migrant workers, urban poor to provide ease of living at an affordable rent.
Initially it was foreign returnees, then came the second wave with the return of attendees of the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi and now with the arrival of thousands of migrants, Telangana stares at a third wave of Covid-19 infections.
As coronavirus lockdown hampers movement of migrants across the nation, some bravehearts walk hundreds of kilometres to reach their villages. In one such incident, migrant worker wheels 8-months pregnant wife, child on makeshift cart for 700 km.
Around 1,000 migrant labourers gathered at Nagpada in South Mumbai on Wednesday morning to press for their demand that they be sent back to their hometowns in northern parts of India immediately, an official said.
A woman and child were killed and over 60 migrant workers returning home from Gujarat were injured when a small truck rammed into a larger one stationed on the roadside in Kanpur Dehat district in the intervening night of Tuesday/Wednesday.
Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish K Awasthi on May 12 informed about the latest developments of the state in regards to migrants who have returned amid the COVID-19 lockdown.
Uttar Pradesh Principal Health Secretary Amit Mohan Prasad on May 12 informed that for the first time the state has higher number of discharged people than active cases of COVID-19 on May 11.
Uttar Pradesh's migrant workers protested after being stopped at Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh border in Barwani district on May 12.
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Actor Sonu Sood has organised multiple bus services for migrant workers in a noble gesture in the wake of covid-19 pandemic. On Monday, buses left from Thane, Maharashtra to Gulbarga, Karnataka. The actor also visited the bus terminals to bid the workers goodbye.
Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal has called upon states to cooperate with Centre so that all the stranded migrant workers in different parts of the country could return to their homes in the next "3-4 days itself."
Amid nationwide lockdown, several migrant workers from Delhi walking along NH-9 towards different districts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have been stopped by police in Ghaziabad on May 10.
Demanding a return passage to their home states, hundreds of agitated migrant workers clashed with the police at Mora village in Gujarat's Surat district on Saturday, an official said.
Hundreds of migrant labourers on Friday thronged the Railway station in Mangaluru on Friday on learning that the Karnataka government would be operating special trains to their home states and demanded that they should be immediately sent back, police said.
At least 85 per cent of daily wagers in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city have lost their regular income during the COVID-19 lockdown, a survey conducted by the Indian Institute of Management here revealed.
At least 16 migrant workers were killed after coming under a goods train in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district on Friday. A police official told all 16 killed were returning to Madhya Pradesh and had slept on railway tracks.
Migrant labourers who were protesting in Kerala's Ernakulam that they be sent back to their native places were lathicharged by cops on Thursday.
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