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Several migrant workers gathered outside Chennai Central Railway Station t
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 17 (ANI): Scores of migrant labourers gathered outside Chennai Central Railway Station on Sunday after receiving the information that the government is running Shramik Special trains for their home states.
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'Is it not dramebaazi?': Nirmala Sitharaman's takedown of Rahul's meeting
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday equated the interaction of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with migrant workers on Saturday, with 'dramebaazi', and urged the prime opposition party in the country to behave more responsibly in its statements and
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Migrant workers continue to travel by trucks, bicycle to their home states
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Nagpur/Ludhiana [India], May 17 (ANI): Migrant labourers from Nagpur and Ludhiana have are moving on their own by any means of transport they could find to reach their native home amid COVID-19 lockdown on Sunday.
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Railways operated over 160 Shramik Special trains and ferried 2.39 Lakh mi
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Indian Railways has operated more than 160 Shramik Special trains on Saturday for inter-state movement of migrant workers.
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Migrant workers demanding trains for return to Bihar take to streets in Sa
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 17 (ANI): Worried by uncertainty over the availability of trains to enable their return to their native places in Bihar, thousands of migrant workers took to the streets and started walking on the Saharanpur-Ambala highway on Sunday morning.
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Kapil Sibal urges judiciary to seek answers on the plight of migrant worke
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Sunday urged the judiciary to take note and seek answers regarding the hardships being faced by migrant workers, as they strive to return to their native places.
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Migrant workers returning to native places face hurdle at Delhi-UP border
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Migrant workers headed on foot towards their native places in different parts of Uttar Pradesh hit a hurdle at Ghazipur near the Delhi-UP border late on Saturday night.
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Uttar Pradesh DMs directed to arrange buses for migrant workers walking ho
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 16 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Additional Director General Law and Order PV Ramasastry on Saturday said all District Magistrates (DMs) have been instructed to arrange buses for migrant workers who are seen walking on foot to their native places.
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NDMA develops online dashboard to facilitate seamless movement of migrant
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): For information regarding movement of migrants and to facilitate the smooth movement of stranded persons across states, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has developed an online dashboard - National Migrant Information System (NMIS) - on the e
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Shramik Special train with 1,389 passengers left Tamil Nadu for Bihar
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 16 (ANI): 'Shramik Special' train carrying 1,389 passengers including migrant workers and students departed from Tuticorin railway station for Muzaffarpur, Bihar on Saturday.
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Providing buses for migrants, say Auraiya district authorities
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Auraiya (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 16 (ANI): Auraiya police authorities on Saturday said it has arranged buses to send the migrant workers who are passing from here to reach their native homes and was asking them to get down from trucks and other vehicles.
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Bengal govt to bear entire cost of train fare of migrant workers coming in
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 16 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday announced that the state government will bear the entire cost of movement for its migrant workers by special trains from other states to West Bengal.
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