Special Trains For Up Migrants

A 50-year-old migrant worker died on-board a Shramik Special train from Rajasthan to West Bengal, triggering panic among other passengers who travelled with the body for more than eight hours, police said on Sunday.

Railways employees on Thursday distributed sanitary pads inside Shramik special trains for migrant workers at Moradabad Railway Station in Uttar Pradesh on the occasion of Menstrual Hygiene Day.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today picked up Kerala's refrain, accusing the Railway Ministry of sending the special trains for migrants without any prior notice and disrupting the state's methods to contain the coronavirus. Accusing the railways of "evacuating Maharashtra and spreading corona to Bengal" and playing politics with both state...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said that no money will be charged from migrant labourers returning to the state on the special trains arranged on the request of the state.

The Railways has cancelled all tickets for regular passenger trains, including mail, express and suburban services, for journeys booked up to June 30, and a full refund will be given to all passengers

As a special train with migrants was rolling out of a station on Sunday in Congress-ruled Punjab, each passenger was handed a pamphlet. "Your ticket was paid for by Sonia Gandhi," said the flyers distributed at Bhatinda station by a Congress MLA.

Sonia Gandhi's announcement today that the Congress would pay the train fare for migrants heading home amid the lockdown set up a huge political row, with the government calling it a baseless move that would "mess up the entire system and create chaos". A detailed rebuttal from top sources came with the comment: "We don't want our villages becoming...

The Uttar Pradesh government will bring back migrant workers stranded in other states amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today. They will be brought back in phases after having completed a 14-day quarantine at the places in which they had been staying, the Chief Minister added. The UP government's decision...

A 50-year-old migrant worker died on-board a Shramik Special train from Rajasthan to West Bengal, triggering panic among other passengers who travelled with the body for more than eight hours, police said on Sunday.

Railways employees on Thursday distributed sanitary pads inside Shramik special trains for migrant workers at Moradabad Railway Station in Uttar Pradesh on the occasion of Menstrual Hygiene Day.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today picked up Kerala's refrain, accusing the Railway Ministry of sending the special trains for migrants without any prior notice and disrupting the state's methods to contain the coronavirus. Accusing the railways of "evacuating Maharashtra and spreading corona to Bengal" and playing politics with both state...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said that no money will be charged from migrant labourers returning to the state on the special trains arranged on the request of the state.

The Railways has cancelled all tickets for regular passenger trains, including mail, express and suburban services, for journeys booked up to June 30, and a full refund will be given to all passengers

As a special train with migrants was rolling out of a station on Sunday in Congress-ruled Punjab, each passenger was handed a pamphlet. "Your ticket was paid for by Sonia Gandhi," said the flyers distributed at Bhatinda station by a Congress MLA.

Sonia Gandhi's announcement today that the Congress would pay the train fare for migrants heading home amid the lockdown set up a huge political row, with the government calling it a baseless move that would "mess up the entire system and create chaos". A detailed rebuttal from top sources came with the comment: "We don't want our villages becoming...

The Uttar Pradesh government will bring back migrant workers stranded in other states amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today. They will be brought back in phases after having completed a 14-day quarantine at the places in which they had been staying, the Chief Minister added. The UP government's decision...