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U'khand deposits Rs 50 lakh as advance to Railways to bring back stranded
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
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
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Delhi's UP Bhawan Control Room gets over 2,000 calls every day
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
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.
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West Bengal govt allows 10 trains carrying migrant labourers to enter Stat
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
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.
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We are strictly monitoring the railway tracks, tunnels: Goa Police
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
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.
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Migrant workers queue up outside Bihar Bhawan to seek help, say helpline n
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
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.
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Centre, State should work together to bring back stranded people of Bengal
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday urged West Bengal government and Centre to work together so that migrant workers of West Bengal, who are now stranded in various states, can return home.
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Migrant workers in J-K provided with jobs as road construction resumes und
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], May 9 (ANI): Jobs were provided to migrant labourers in the newly formed Union Territory as road construction work has resumed in areas under Rajouri Public Works Department (PWD) amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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Delhi govt paid for train tickets of migrant labourers, matter should not
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain on Saturday said that Delhi government bore the entire cost incurred on the tickets of 1200 migrant labourers who were sent back to Bihar from Delhi by Shramik Special train on Friday. He also said that the matter should n
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Delhi govt asking for money spent on tickets of migrant labourers: Bihar M
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], May 9 (ANI): Bihar Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha on Saturday said the Delhi government was asking for money that it had spent on the train tickets of migrant labourers.
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TN Police resort to mild lathi-charge to stop migrants undertaking home jo
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 9 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Police resorted to mild lathi-charge at a large group of migrant labourers who were found to be undertaking their journeys on foot on the national highway in Chennai to reach their home state, Jharkhand.
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Maha Home Minister expresses grief over Aurangabad train accident
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 9 (ANI): Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Saturday expressed grief over Aurangabad train accident in which 16 migrant labourers were killed.
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Home Minister Amit Shah writes to Mamata Banerjee, says trains with migran
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): The continuing saga of the acrimony between West Bengal Government and the Centre took another turn for the worse today after Union Home Minister Amit Shah sent a letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, expressing his dismay over the state gov
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