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.
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 4 (ANI): A special train, carrying 1,200 migrant workers who were stranded in Gujarat's Sabarmati amid the coronavirus lockdown, reached Kanpur on Sunday.
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 4 (ANI): Jharkhand government sent around 15 buses from 6 districts to Raipur on Sunday to bring back the migrant labourers stuck here amid COVID-19 lockdown.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 4 (ANI): Scores of migrant workers stranded here amid COVID19 lockdown gathered in Hyderabad on Sunday allegedly demanding the state government to send them back to their native places.
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 4 (ANI): Former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Sunday said that the health of the migrants who have been allowed to move, should not be jeopardized and appropriate tests must be conducted.
Barwani (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 4 (ANI): Migrant workers blocked the national highway here and allegedly pelted stones at the police in which three cops received minor injuries.
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], May 3 (ANI): A Shramik special train carrying 977 people, mainly migrant workers, left Nagpur for Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow on Sunday.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], May 3 (ANI): Odisha Chief Secretary Asit Kumar Tripathy has said the violation of health and quarantine protocol by the returnees to the State will not be tolerated.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 3 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said the state government is bringing back over 2,500 stranded migrants of Bengal from Ajmer and Kerala tomorrow by special trains.
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 3 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh government has formulated a clear cut mechanism for the return of nearly six lakh migrant workers and students held up in other states due to the lockdown.
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], May 3 (ANI): The farmers of Punjab are facing problems as the migrant labourers have headed home and vegetable markets remain closed amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
Kandhamal (Odisha) [India], May 3 (ANI): At least two people were killed after a bus carrying more than 60 migrants met with an accident in Kandhamal district of Odisha on Saturday night.