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Over 1,000 persons brought from Punjab to AP and Telangana by train
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 15 (ANI): Over 1,000 persons including students and migrant workers from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, who were stranded in Punjab, were brought back by a special train today.
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Karnataka: Migrant workers in Mangalore hold protest ask Jharkhand govt fo
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Mangalore (Karnataka)[India], May 15 (ANI): Scores of migrant workers from Jharkhand on Friday staged a protest outside the Town Hall in Mangalore asking the Jharkhand government to arrange trains for them to return home.
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World Bank announces $1 billion social protection package for India
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): The World Bank's board of executive directors has approved a one billion dollar social protection response programme to support India's efforts at providing social assistance to the poor and vulnerable households which have been severely impacted by the COVID
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Delhi: Migrant workers queue up at COVID-19 screening centre for medical c
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Scores of migrant workers queued up outside a COVID-19 screening centre in the Gole Market area on Friday to secure a medical certificate in order to return to their homes via special trains.
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Plug social protection gaps in developing countries to prevent future cris
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 15 (ANI): The COVID-19 crisis has exposed devastating gaps in social protection coverage in developing countries and recovery will only be sustained and future crises prevented if they can transform their ad hoc crisis response measures into comprehensive social pro
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World Bank gives $1 billion as social security fund for India
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): The World Bank has approved one billion dollar package for India's urban poor and migrant workers during the coronavirus crisis.
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4 trains to ferry migrant workers to Bihar from Greater Noida
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Gautam Buddh Nagar (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 15 (ANI): The Gautam Buddh Nagar administration has said that four trains will ferry registered migrant workers and labourers to Bihar from Greater Noida on Saturday amid the lockdown.
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Stranded migrant workers walk towards their hometowns from Delhi
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): After walking for several kilometres due to lack of public transport, migrant workers on Friday reached Delhi-Gazipur border on way to their homes in various parts of Uttar Pradesh.
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Migrant workers leave Mumbai in autos
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) / Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 15 (ANI): Determined to reach their homes, people are using autorickshaws to make their journey from Maharashtra to their home states. Auto drivers, their families and migrants stranded in Mumbai are making the journey to Biha
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Small vehicles can be used to bring back migrant workers from nearby state
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], May 15 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said that apart from buses, small vehicles could be used to bring back migrants from nearby states.
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Migrant worker wheels his pregnant wife, toddler on makeshift cart from Hy
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), May 15 (ANI) A migrant worker from Madhya Pradesh who found himself stranded in Hyderabad during the lockdown managed to get back home walking around 700 kilometres, wheeling along with his pregnant wife and daughter on a makeshift wooden cart for the most part of th
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For some migrant workers, reaching home is still a tough task
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Even as the government has started Shramik special trains to take migrant workers to their homes, there are workers who are finding difficulty in reaching their native places in other states.
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