Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 17 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said that the state government is committed to ensuring the safe return of the migrant labourers of the state stranded elsewhere in the country.
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.
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.
Panaji (Goa) [India], May 17 (ANI): Goa Government on Sunday informed that a woman who returned to the state in a special train from Delhi has tested positive for COVID-19 during rapid testing.
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.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], May 17 (ANI): Odisha government on Sunday urged Central government to suspend Shramik special trains from May 18 for three days due to cyclone Amphan.
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Two special trains carrying passengers from Mumbai and Howrah arrived at the New Delhi Railway Station here earlier on Saturday.
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.
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.
New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): The Indian Railways is ready to run Shramik Special trains from any district in the country, said Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 16 (ANI): West Bengal government has given nod for 105 special trains to bring back migrant workers and others from 16 States, State Home Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay informed on Saturday.
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], May 16 (ANI): Despite the government's initiatives of plying special trains and buses to transport stranded people, several migrant workers from Maharashtra were on Saturday seen heading towards their native villages in other states on bicycles.