Karnataka Migrant Trains

Every single day, hundreds of migrant workers turn up at the satellite bus stand off Mysuru Road on the outskirts of Bengaluru. They keep coming, despite being chased away with lathis. They come in the hope of getting into a bus that will take them to a train that will finally take them home to Bihar.

The return of migrants has triggered unrest in stations of Karnataka and Bengal, with people complaining about amenities, refusing quarantine and alleging mismanagement in route allocation. The special trains for the migrants -- labourers, students and tourists -- had started on May 1, after their plight was repeatedly flagged by the states in thei...

Lakhs of migrant workers, students and tourists have been stranded since the Centre announced a nation-wide lockdown on March 24 to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. However, in recent days, the government has been trying to help the stranded citizens by running special trains and flights for them and asking various states to make provisions for the...

The Karnataka government is awaiting the approval of 6 out of the 11 states, that it had written for consent, to operate trains for the movement of stranded people.

Four special trains for migrants will be rolled from Karnataka this evening, two days after the state's decision to stop the Railway's "Shramik" service - launched last week for labourers amid coronavirus lockdown - sparked criticism. The decision was rolled back yesterday.

Three trains will roll from Bengaluru today, carrying migrant labourers to their home states, the Karnataka government decided on Thursday after much outrage over its Wednesday's move to withdraw its request for the Central service. The government -- which said the migrants were needed to run the state's booming construction sector -- has held talk...

Special trains from Karnataka taking home thousands of migrants stranded by the coronavirus lockdown have been cancelled by the BS Yediyurappa government, which says workers are needed for construction activities that have resumed in the state. The BJP government is forcing the migrants to stay, said the Congress, using the term "bonded labour" in ...

A day after it cancelled 10 trains for migrants, the BS Yediyurappa government in Karnataka has announced a relief package of over Rs 1,600 crore for groups worst hit by the coronavirus lockdown. But the package has very little to offer migrants forced to stay back; it is directed at small and medium enterprises, handloom weavers, flower growers, d...

By the time the Lokmanya Tilak - Gorakhpur Express, a daily train from Mumbai to eastern Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur town, pulls up at Gonda, 19-year old Rajesh Kumar Gupta has already spent 27 hours in it, a long ride back to his village in Gorakhpur for Thursday's voting. He lives and works in Mumbai along with his two older brothers, while their p...

Nine people, most of them allegedly from the BJP's youth wing, the ABVP, have been detained in Karnataka for verbally and physically assaulting migrant labourers who were on a train headed to Bangalore.

Every single day, hundreds of migrant workers turn up at the satellite bus stand off Mysuru Road on the outskirts of Bengaluru. They keep coming, despite being chased away with lathis. They come in the hope of getting into a bus that will take them to a train that will finally take them home to Bihar.

The return of migrants has triggered unrest in stations of Karnataka and Bengal, with people complaining about amenities, refusing quarantine and alleging mismanagement in route allocation. The special trains for the migrants -- labourers, students and tourists -- had started on May 1, after their plight was repeatedly flagged by the states in thei...

Lakhs of migrant workers, students and tourists have been stranded since the Centre announced a nation-wide lockdown on March 24 to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. However, in recent days, the government has been trying to help the stranded citizens by running special trains and flights for them and asking various states to make provisions for the...

The Karnataka government is awaiting the approval of 6 out of the 11 states, that it had written for consent, to operate trains for the movement of stranded people.

Four special trains for migrants will be rolled from Karnataka this evening, two days after the state's decision to stop the Railway's "Shramik" service - launched last week for labourers amid coronavirus lockdown - sparked criticism. The decision was rolled back yesterday.

Three trains will roll from Bengaluru today, carrying migrant labourers to their home states, the Karnataka government decided on Thursday after much outrage over its Wednesday's move to withdraw its request for the Central service. The government -- which said the migrants were needed to run the state's booming construction sector -- has held talk...

Special trains from Karnataka taking home thousands of migrants stranded by the coronavirus lockdown have been cancelled by the BS Yediyurappa government, which says workers are needed for construction activities that have resumed in the state. The BJP government is forcing the migrants to stay, said the Congress, using the term "bonded labour" in ...

A day after it cancelled 10 trains for migrants, the BS Yediyurappa government in Karnataka has announced a relief package of over Rs 1,600 crore for groups worst hit by the coronavirus lockdown. But the package has very little to offer migrants forced to stay back; it is directed at small and medium enterprises, handloom weavers, flower growers, d...

By the time the Lokmanya Tilak - Gorakhpur Express, a daily train from Mumbai to eastern Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur town, pulls up at Gonda, 19-year old Rajesh Kumar Gupta has already spent 27 hours in it, a long ride back to his village in Gorakhpur for Thursday's voting. He lives and works in Mumbai along with his two older brothers, while their p...

Nine people, most of them allegedly from the BJP's youth wing, the ABVP, have been detained in Karnataka for verbally and physically assaulting migrant labourers who were on a train headed to Bangalore.