Our families need us in this tough time, migrant workers say as they struggle to go home
4 years, 7 months ago

Our families need us in this tough time, migrant workers say as they struggle to go home

The Hindu  

Babban Mahto’s wait to see his two-month-old girl for the first time only seems to be getting longer. It says the application has been successfully submitted, but how do we know which train will take us home and when?” asks Jitendra Mahto, 35, who worked in a T-shirt printing unit. Salendra Kumar, 30, from Bihar’s Chapra district, says he just finished watching news about the Delhi government arranging 16 special trains on Tuesday to ferry migrant workers to their native states. They are treating us like we don’t belong to this country,” Kumar says, wrapping his handkerchief around his head to beat the heat. I am not saying lockdown is not needed, but the government should have made some arrangements for us first,” the 28-year-old from Bihar’s Madhubani district says.

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Over 800k migrants left Delhi after lockdown announced: Govt
3 years, 7 months ago

Over 800k migrants left Delhi after lockdown announced: Govt

Hindustan Times  

At least 800,000 migrant workers travelled from Delhi to their home states in the first four weeks of lockdown in the Capital, nearly half of them in the first week, a report by the Delhi government said, highlighting that buses and other arrangements were made for labourers to avoid a repeat of last year’s crisis. “The timely coordination with transport …

26 Jharkhand Labourers Stuck in Nepal Appeal for Rescue; State Arranging Transport
3 years, 7 months ago

26 Jharkhand Labourers Stuck in Nepal Appeal for Rescue; State Arranging Transport

News 18  

After 26 migrant labourers of Jharkhand stuck in Nepal due to lockdown sought help from the government through video messages, the state administration has taken steps to bring them back, an official said on Thursday. Meanwhile, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren retweeted a message by a non-profit body Shubh Sandesh Foundation: “Doing our best to assist 26 Jharkhand migrants stuck …

Migrant labourers suffer as states impose partial Covid lockdowns
3 years, 7 months ago

Migrant labourers suffer as states impose partial Covid lockdowns

India Today  

The partial and weekend lockdowns have resulted in yet another exodus of migrant labourers from the industrial areas of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. MIGRANT LABOURERS RETURN HOME Labourers who worked in fields and industries besides big construction sites and have started moving towards villages in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar Jharkhand. PUNJAB INDUSTRIALISTS FEAR LOSSES AS LABOURERS LEAVE INDUSTRIAL HUBS Partial …

Déjà vu March 2020: Migrant Workers Rush Home after Delhi Goes Under Curfew
3 years, 8 months ago

Déjà vu March 2020: Migrant Workers Rush Home after Delhi Goes Under Curfew

News 18  

It was a grim deja vu of last year’s mass exodus of migrant workers from big cities to their homes in rural India soon after Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a week-long curfew in Delhi to control the spread of coronavirus. Thousands of migrant workers gathered at Anand Vihar ISBT here to catch a bus home, even though Kejirwal …

Better to leave now: Migrant workers in Delhi, Mumbai head home amid fear of lockdown
3 years, 9 months ago

Better to leave now: Migrant workers in Delhi, Mumbai head home amid fear of lockdown

India Today  

As India witnesses a resurgence in Covid 19 cases, it is the migrant workers who are staring at an uncertain future with several states announcing night curfews and weekend lockdowns. In Delhi, many migrant workers were seen leaving for their home states from the Anand Vihar Bus Terminal. Besides Delhi, many migrant labourers in Mumbai were Several states including Maharashtra, …

Covid-19 migrant crisis: How they returned
3 years, 9 months ago

Covid-19 migrant crisis: How they returned

Hindustan Times  

Millions of labourers spilled out of India’s cities in a desperate attempt to reach home during the lockdown. Their plight holds important takeaways for the country’s policymakers and development strategists A migrant labourer gets emotional while talking to a relative over his mobile phone at Nizamuddin Bridge, May 11, 2020. WALKING OR CYCLING Roughly a week after the lockdown was …

Over 1 Crore Migrant Workers Walked to Their Home States During Lockdown till June: Govt Informs Parl
4 years, 3 months ago

Over 1 Crore Migrant Workers Walked to Their Home States During Lockdown till June: Govt Informs Parl

News 18  

More than one crore migrant labourers returned to their home states on foot during March-June 2020, including those who travelled during the COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown, the government said on Tuesday. As per the data compiled by Ministry of Labour and Employment, more than 1.06 crore migrant workers, including those who travelled on foot during the lockdown, returned to their home …

Lack of jobs force migrant labourers to return to cities they left in March
4 years, 4 months ago

Lack of jobs force migrant labourers to return to cities they left in March

The Hindu  

The Anand Vihar bus terminal — where thousands of migrant workers had assembled four months back in a desperate bid to return to their home towns after a nationwide lockdown was announced — is again abuzz with labourers, but this time they are desperate to return to the city. With the lockdown virtually shutting down the economy, labourers said they …

Empty Shramik Specials trains led to a loss of ₹42 lakh: Maharashtra govt
4 years, 5 months ago

Empty Shramik Specials trains led to a loss of ₹42 lakh: Maharashtra govt

Live Mint  

The Maharashtra government on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that it incurred a loss of around ₹42 lakh as most of the Shramik Special trains arranged in the last month to ferry stranded migrant workers to their native states amid the COVID-19 pandemic went empty. Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni, appearing for the state government, told a division bench of …

Taking Note Of Pendency Of Case In SC, Bombay HC Refuses To Pass Orders For Transport Of Migrants To West Bengal
4 years, 5 months ago

Taking Note Of Pendency Of Case In SC, Bombay HC Refuses To Pass Orders For Transport Of Migrants To West Bengal

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused to pass directions facilitating movement of allegedly stranded migrant workers in the State of Maharashtra to West Bengal, noting the pendency of the suo moto case on migrants issue before the SC.The bench also took into consideration the submissions of Advocate General that the last time a train left for West Bengal it …

Mumbai: Migrants wait for trains, turned away after miscommunication between officials
4 years, 7 months ago

Mumbai: Migrants wait for trains, turned away after miscommunication between officials

India Today  

Thousands of migrant workers expecting to travel to by train from Mumbai this morning were left disappointed due to miscommunication between state and railway officials. The Mumbai Police told the workers their train would leave from Borivali station and asked them to gather at a public ground in Kandivali. Take the example of Shivkumar Sharma, a cash-strapped migrant worker living …

Ensure That No Migrants Walk On Roads/Rails; Counsel Them To Go To Shelter Homes : MHA Tells States
4 years, 7 months ago

Ensure That No Migrants Walk On Roads/Rails; Counsel Them To Go To Shelter Homes : MHA Tells States

Live Law  

The Union Home Secretary, Sh. Ajay Bhalla, wrote to the Chiref Secretaries of all States urging them to ensure migrant workers are not walking on roads and railway tracks after their movement has been facilitated by the Government.Now that 'Shramik' trains and special buses have been deployed by the Centre to cater to the transportation need of migrant workers, the …

24 Migrants Killed, Many Injured After 2 Trucks Collide In Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya
4 years, 7 months ago

24 Migrants Killed, Many Injured After 2 Trucks Collide In Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya

ABP News  

New Delhi: Twenty-four migrants were killed and atleast 35 were injured after the truck they were travelling in collided with another truck on early Saturday in Auraiya of Uttar Pradesh. He has also directed that all the injured be provided medical care immediately and the Commissioner and IG Kanpur to visit the site and give the report on the cause …

Make sure migrants do not walk home: MHA tells states
4 years, 7 months ago

Make sure migrants do not walk home: MHA tells states

Live Mint  

New Delhi: In a fresh communication to states, the Union home ministry, on Friday, instructed states to ensure that migrant workers do not have to walk back to their home states. Union home secretary Ajay Bhalla wrote to states instructing the establishements to urge migrants to take the Shramik Special trains, which are currently in operation. "In case they are …

First 'Shramik' special train from Ghaziabad leaves for Bihar carrying 1,420 migrant workers
4 years, 7 months ago

First 'Shramik' special train from Ghaziabad leaves for Bihar carrying 1,420 migrant workers

India TV News  

The first 'Shramik' special train from Ghaziabad left for Bihar's Muzaffarpur on Friday with 1,420 stranded migrant workers onboard, officials said. The special train with a total of 22 coaches left around 9 pm from Ghaziabad old railway station. Additional District Magistrate Santosh Kumar Vaish told PTI that all the 1,420 passengers had applied on the state government's Jansunvai portal. …

14 Home-bound Migrant Labourers Killed in Two Road Accidents, Nearly 60 Injured
4 years, 7 months ago

14 Home-bound Migrant Labourers Killed in Two Road Accidents, Nearly 60 Injured

News 18  

Guna/Muzaffarnagar/Lucknow: Fourteen migrant labourers were killed and nearly 60 injured in two road accidents while they were on the way to their homes in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, police said on Thursday. The second accident took place in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar around 10.30 pm on Wednesday when six migrant workers walking to their homes in Bihar from Punjab were killed …

6 migrants killed, 4 critically injured after UP roadways bus runs over near Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur border
4 years, 7 months ago

6 migrants killed, 4 critically injured after UP roadways bus runs over near Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur border

India TV News  

At least 6 migrants have been killed and 4 others are critically injured after a UP roadways bus hit them near Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur border. This is the second such incident when migrants workers who are walking back home amid lockdown were killed. Last week, at least 16 migrant workers were killed after coming under a goods train in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district. …

Second train ferrying migrant workers leaves for Muzaffarpur
4 years, 8 months ago

Second train ferrying migrant workers leaves for Muzaffarpur

The Hindu  

The second train for migrant workers left Delhi on Friday afternoon for Muzaffarpur in Bihar, officials said. The train carrying 1,200 people left from New Delhi railway station around 3 p.m. and more such trains will transport migrant workers back to their States during the week, Delhi government officials said. Also, the Delhi government has decided to bear the cost …

Maharashtra: 16 migrant workers mowed down by goods train in Aurangabad, 5 injured
4 years, 8 months ago

Maharashtra: 16 migrant workers mowed down by goods train in Aurangabad, 5 injured

India TV News  

At least 16 migrant workers were killed after coming under a goods train in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district on Friday morning. "The injured have been shifted to Aurangabad civil hospital," Chief Public Relations Officer of South Central Railway told ANI. "During early hours today after seeing some labourers on track, loco pilot of goods train tried to stop the train but …

Migrant Workers Not Stranded Persons? The Illegal & Inhuman Effect Of MHA Clarification
4 years, 8 months ago

Migrant Workers Not Stranded Persons? The Illegal & Inhuman Effect Of MHA Clarification

Live Law  

It was after 37 days of the lockdown that the Central Government allowed the inter-state movement of migrant workers and other persons who got stranded at different places due to the restrictions imposed in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic.This permission followed several heart-rending reports of migrant workers, who were left without work in cities, walking over hundreds of kilometers. After …

Paid for train tickets with final savings, say migrant workers from Bihar
4 years, 8 months ago

Paid for train tickets with final savings, say migrant workers from Bihar

India Today  

Around 1,200 workers set off from Kalyan in Maharashtra to Danapur in Bihar on Tuesday. These migrant workers who were not being paid any wages ever since the lockdown came into effect, were made to pay Rs 20 for the bus ticket and Rs 700 for the train ticket from Kalyan to Danapur in Bihar. One of the labourers whose …

Over Rs 50 crore spent to ferry nearly 70,000 migrants in last 5 days, say railway officials
4 years, 8 months ago

Over Rs 50 crore spent to ferry nearly 70,000 migrants in last 5 days, say railway officials

India TV News  

Nearly 70,000 stranded migrants have been ferried to various parts of the country in 'Shramik Special' trains since May 1 at the estimated expense of over Rs 50 crore, railway officials said on Tuesday even as the issue of their travel cost remained a matter of political bickering with the Congress and BSP leaders attacking the railways for charging money …

‘Will Bear Cost of Rail Travel of Migrant Workers’: Sonia Gandhi
4 years, 8 months ago

‘Will Bear Cost of Rail Travel of Migrant Workers’: Sonia Gandhi

The Quint  

In a detailed statement, she said: “Our workers and labourers form the backbone of our economy. As the central government barely gave a four-hour notice of the lockdown, workers and migrant labourers were denied the opportunity to return to their homes. Post the partition of 1947, this is the first time India witnessed a tragedy with such a massive human …

Two trains to bring back migrants to West Bengal: CM
4 years, 8 months ago

Two trains to bring back migrants to West Bengal: CM

Hindustan Times  

The West Bengal government on Sunday approved two special trains to bring back migrants from Rajasthan and Kerala following criticism from opposition leaders of not treating the issue of migrant workers with urgency. One train will ferry 1,200 pilgrims from Rajasthan and another will bring back migrants from Kerala, officials familiar with the matter said. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee tweeted …

A story to tell grandchildren: Train crew after bringing stranded workers home
4 years, 8 months ago

A story to tell grandchildren: Train crew after bringing stranded workers home

India Today  

For loco driver Haridas and guard Rajeev Raikwar, the 02121 Shramik Special wasn’t just another train. The “workers' special” the two rolled into Lucknow Sunday morning was the first such train to Uttar Pradesh, bringing home 800 migrant labourers stranded for weeks in Maharashtra. Haridas who drove the train from Jhansi to Lucknow a part of its journey from Nashik …

As migrants return, states guard against Covid surge
4 years, 8 months ago

As migrants return, states guard against Covid surge

Hindustan Times  

States receiving migrant labourers from across India are gearing up for a massive challenge: a spurt in Covid-19 cases. Odisha, which will test all workers for Covid-19 after a mandatory 14-day quarantine period, has instructed all community centres to remain open around the clock, and has decided to create 4,200 new isolation beds. “Special attention is being paid to workers …

1,000 migrant labourers hit the streets in Maharashtra, demand returning home
4 years, 8 months ago

1,000 migrant labourers hit the streets in Maharashtra, demand returning home

Hindustan Times  

Around 1,000 migrant labourers, mostly from northern parts of India, came on to the streets in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur on Saturday to demand that arrangements be made for their return to the native places, police said. Mi The incident took place around 9.30 am at Ballarpur in the district, an official said. The incident took place around 9.30 am at Ballarpur …

Maharashtra: 1,000 migrant labourers hit streets, demand return home
4 years, 8 months ago

Maharashtra: 1,000 migrant labourers hit streets, demand return home

India TV News  

Around 1,000 migrant labourers, mostly from northern parts of India, came on to the streets in Maharashtra's Chandrapur on Saturday to demand that arrangements be made for their return to the native places, police said. "More than 1,000 labourers, mostly staying at a construction site in a government medical college, hit the streets and demanded that arrangement be made for …

First special train carrying nearly 1,200 migrant labourers reaches Patna
4 years, 8 months ago

First special train carrying nearly 1,200 migrant labourers reaches Patna

India Today  

The first 'Shramik Express' special train carrying 1,187 stranded migrant labourers from Jaipur reached in Patna on Saturday afternoon. Patna Divisional Commissioner Sanjay Agarwal, Patna DM Kumar Ravi and SSP Upendra Sharma were present at the railway station to oversee the arrangements on the arrival of the migrant workers. Patna Divisional Commissioner Sanjay Agarwal informed all the migrant workers who …

Buses not feasible, need trains to ferry migrant workers, says Kerala CM
4 years, 8 months ago

Buses not feasible, need trains to ferry migrant workers, says Kerala CM

Hindustan Times  

Kerala has asked the Centre to run special trains to take migrant workers to their states because buses are not feasible for such long journeys, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Thursday. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said it was not feasible to run buses for such long distances. He said the majority of 3.60 lakh workers in the state …

Safe return: The Hindu Editorial on migrant worker distress
4 years, 8 months ago

Safe return: The Hindu Editorial on migrant worker distress

The Hindu  

A month after one of the most stringent global lockdowns was imposed in India to tackle the pandemic, the travails of the migrant worker have shown no signs of ending. The government told the Supreme Court in late March that arrangements had been made to provide temporary shelters with food for migrant workers and as of then, none of them …

Day after migrants' protest in Mumbai's Bandra, police files FIR against TV journalist for report on resumption of Jan Sadharan special trains
4 years, 8 months ago

Day after migrants' protest in Mumbai's Bandra, police files FIR against TV journalist for report on resumption of Jan Sadharan special trains

Firstpost  

In a recent news report, the journalist had said that Jan Sadharan special trains would resume for people stranded due to the lockdown, said a police official Mumbai: An FIR has been registered against a television journalist over his report that trains would restart, which may have prompted gathering of migrants in suburban Bandra on Tuesday, a police official said. …

Hundreds reached Mumbai’s Bandra railway station to go home; lathicharged
4 years, 8 months ago

Hundreds reached Mumbai’s Bandra railway station to go home; lathicharged

Hindustan Times  

In a replay of scenes at Delhi’s border with Uttar Pradesh last month, hundreds of migrant workers gathered outside Bandra West railway station on Tuesday evening to demand that the railways run trains to take them home. Mumbai Police dispersed the crowd of hundreds of migrant workers who were demanding that the railways run trains to take them home “The …

How migrant workers were forced by Delhi govt to flock to UP border
4 years, 9 months ago

How migrant workers were forced by Delhi govt to flock to UP border

Op India  

The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday accused Arvind Kejriwal led AAP government in Delhi of playing petty politics, lying and spreading rumours, risking the lives of migrant workers at the time of a crisis as serious as the Coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by Indian Express. Read: MHA issues advisory urging states, UTs to provide food, shelter to migrant …

Migrant workers continue march home
4 years, 9 months ago

Migrant workers continue march home

The Hindu  

As soon as it stopped raining, Ramautar started his march to his village in Sambhal with his wife and 12-year-old son from the Link Road in Ghaziabad. government promising help for people like him, Ramautar said: “ Sarkarki madad aane main time lagta hai.” On a day when two more COVID-19 positive cases were found in Ghaziabad, there were many …

27 migrant labourers from Jharkhand, working in West Bengal's Hooghly, walk 160 km on way to home
4 years, 9 months ago

27 migrant labourers from Jharkhand, working in West Bengal's Hooghly, walk 160 km on way to home

Firstpost  

A group of 27 migrant labourers, who work in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, walked about 160 km to reach Dumka in Jharkhand on Thursday, failing to get any transport on the way to their homes in Bihar’s Saharsa district, officials said. Dumka: A group of 27 migrant labourers, who work in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, walked about 160 km to …

Hit by lockdown, stranded on roads: Migrant labourers walk for days to reach home
4 years, 9 months ago

Hit by lockdown, stranded on roads: Migrant labourers walk for days to reach home

India Today  

On Tuesday night, a group of 50 migrant labourers in Ahmedabad embarked upon a 150-km journey to their native village in Rajasthan's Dungarpur district. Follow LIVE updates on coronavirus pandemic "Since buses and other modes of transport are not available, we have decided to walk to reach home," he was quoted as saying by news agency PTI. Speaking about the …

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