Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 10 (ANI): Maharashtra Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday appealed to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to give permission for seven trains to carry migrant labourers from Mumbai to Bengal.
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], May 10 (ANI): More than 1,180 people, mainly migrant labourers, were on Sunday screened for COVID-19 before they boarded a Shramik Special train at Amritsar Railway Station for Barauni in Bihar.
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], May 10 (ANI): A group of migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh, living in Pune's Kondhwa, have been forced to walk to Allahabad amid lockdown.
Narsinghpur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 10 (ANI): Of the 11 people who got injured when the truck they were travelling in got overturned in Narsinghpur, two people referred to Jabalpur as one of them had head injury and the other had mandible fracture, said Dr Anita Agrawal, Civil Surgeon.
Narsinghpur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 10 (ANI): Five labourers died and 11 got injured after the truck they were travelling in overturned in Patha village in Narsinghpur on an intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has said that special 'Shramik Trains' are being run daily from various railway stations of the state to send the migrant labourers to their home states.
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): BJP leader and Patliputra MP Ram Kripal Yadav on Saturday slammed the Delhi government, saying that the migrants would not have desired to leave the national capital had the system been good here.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 9 (ANI): Uttarakhand government has deposited Rs 50 lakh as advance to Indian Railways to bring back stranded people, including migrant labourers from different parts of the country, said Shailesh Bagoli, Nodal Officer, Uttarakhand Government Committee for
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): Close to 2,000-2,500 calls from persons belonging to Uttar Pradesh, majority of whom are stranded in other parts of the country, wanting to return home are received at Uttar Pradesh Bhawan control room here, said an official on Saturday.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 9 (ANI): West Bengal Government has given green signal to 10 trains carrying migrant workers to enter the state, said Home Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay here on Saturday.
Panaji (Goa) [India], May 9 (ANI): The police is keeping a strict vigil and monitoring the railway tracks and tunnels so that migrant labourers do not walk on tracks in a bid to get back to their homes, said Shobit Saxena, Superintendent of Police Special Branch.
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): Several migrant workers were seen standing in a long queue outside the Bihar Bhawan on Saturday, they complain that the helpline number that was provided remains busy always. They are hopeless, from where to seek help.