Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 4 (ANI): The Madhya Pradesh government has decided that it will bear the travel expenses of migrant workers hailing from the state for their return.
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 4 (ANI): Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has said that the government will bear the expenses of the travel fare of the migrant workers from the state if a special train is being run for their return.
Patna (Bihar) [India], May 4 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said that stranded people of Bihar, including migrants and students, coming back to the state via special trains will not have to pay for rail tickets and their fare will be paid by the state government.
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 4 (ANI): Chhattisgarh Health and Panchayati Raj Minister TS Singh Deo on Monday welcomed Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi's decision to bear the costs of railway tickets of needy migrant labourers who are returning home amid the lockdown and offered
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 4 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has said that the free bus service for migrant workers has been extended by two days in the state.
New Delhi [India] May 4 (ANI): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday hit out at the Centre asking that if the government can bring back Indians stranded overseas through air, free of cost, then why cannot it give free rail travel facility to labourers amid lockdown.
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 4 (ANI): Indian women's hockey team has raised Rs 20 lakh through an 18-day fitness challenge in an attempt to help the poor and migrant workers, whose livelihood has been affected due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel on Monday urged Pradesh Congress Committees to mobilise all possible local resources to help migrant workers purchase train tickets to get back to their homes as the COVID-19 lockdown has been extended till May 17.
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday hit out at the Central government for charging migrant workers for rail travel during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Kalaburagi (Karnataka) [India], May 4 (ANI): Migrant workers stranded in different parts of Karnataka arrived in buses at Central Bus Stand in Kalaburagi on Monday morning and are being sent to their home towns.
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi on Monday said that her party will bear the cost for rail travel of every needy migrant worker and labourer to their respective home towns during the lockdown.