Migrants Walking Home

An express train mowed down three migrant labourers from Bihar in Odisha's Ganjam district while they were walking on the tracks to reach a railway station to return home, a GRP official said on Monday.

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav aimed at a series of jibes at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during an election rally in the state's Nawada district today, criticising the JDU boss for staying at home because of Covid and only coming out to ask for votes

The Central government has submitted before the Supreme Court that migrant labourers, who were found walking to their homes, were shifted to the nearest railway stations and essential items including food, water, medicines and clothes were provided to them whenever and wherever needed.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav hit out at the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, claiming that despite having over 70,000 buses in its fleet, labourers had to walk home amid the COVID-19 lockdown resulting in many deaths.

"I was deeply saddened to see them walking with their little children on foot," said Sonu Sood

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sent a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over reported death of a 19-year-old migrant worker due to hunger in Saharanpur, after he had walked 350 km from Ludhiana on way to his home in the state, officials said on Wednesday.

The company is collaborating with government officials in UP, Bihar and Odisha to ease the return journey of stranded migrants.

The decomposed body of a 40-year-old labourer, who worked as a sugarcane-cutter, was found on Monday in a village in Maharashtra's Beed district, police said.

A number of buses arranged by the Haryana government for ferrying migrant workers to different parts of Uttar Pradesh had to return to Yamunanagar today as those walking home blocked the Saharanpur highway.

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has responded to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's comments on sending more trains for migrants to Congress-ruled states. During her announcement today on new policy moves amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Finance Minister had taken a swipe at the Congress after the centre faced opposition attacks ...

The Andhra Pradesh government has rescued more than 5,000 migrant workers walking to their home states in the last three days.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said that authorities have been asked to make sure that migrant workers stranded in the state do not face any problems amid the ongoing nation-wide lockdown to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

An extended family of seventeen walks on the searing road, carrying a seriously injured boy on a make-shift stretcher.

A migrant family, holding torches in hand, was seen walking in the dead of the night to make it back to their village in Uttarakhand. The family nearly crossed path with a leopard during their long journey home.

The temperature in Rajasthan worked its way up to 37 degrees celsius today, infiltrating the already arduous journey of migrant workers in the state who are walking home to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

An express train mowed down three migrant labourers from Bihar in Odisha's Ganjam district while they were walking on the tracks to reach a railway station to return home, a GRP official said on Monday.

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav aimed at a series of jibes at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during an election rally in the state's Nawada district today, criticising the JDU boss for staying at home because of Covid and only coming out to ask for votes

The Central government has submitted before the Supreme Court that migrant labourers, who were found walking to their homes, were shifted to the nearest railway stations and essential items including food, water, medicines and clothes were provided to them whenever and wherever needed.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav hit out at the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, claiming that despite having over 70,000 buses in its fleet, labourers had to walk home amid the COVID-19 lockdown resulting in many deaths.

"I was deeply saddened to see them walking with their little children on foot," said Sonu Sood

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sent a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over reported death of a 19-year-old migrant worker due to hunger in Saharanpur, after he had walked 350 km from Ludhiana on way to his home in the state, officials said on Wednesday.

The company is collaborating with government officials in UP, Bihar and Odisha to ease the return journey of stranded migrants.

The decomposed body of a 40-year-old labourer, who worked as a sugarcane-cutter, was found on Monday in a village in Maharashtra's Beed district, police said.

A number of buses arranged by the Haryana government for ferrying migrant workers to different parts of Uttar Pradesh had to return to Yamunanagar today as those walking home blocked the Saharanpur highway.

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has responded to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's comments on sending more trains for migrants to Congress-ruled states. During her announcement today on new policy moves amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Finance Minister had taken a swipe at the Congress after the centre faced opposition attacks ...

The Andhra Pradesh government has rescued more than 5,000 migrant workers walking to their home states in the last three days.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said that authorities have been asked to make sure that migrant workers stranded in the state do not face any problems amid the ongoing nation-wide lockdown to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

An extended family of seventeen walks on the searing road, carrying a seriously injured boy on a make-shift stretcher.

A migrant family, holding torches in hand, was seen walking in the dead of the night to make it back to their village in Uttarakhand. The family nearly crossed path with a leopard during their long journey home.

The temperature in Rajasthan worked its way up to 37 degrees celsius today, infiltrating the already arduous journey of migrant workers in the state who are walking home to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.