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A statement was filed on Friday in the Supreme Court seeking an address to the Center to request all district magistrates in the country to identify stranded migrant workers and provide them with shelter and food before guaranteeing their free transportation to places. natives in view of the early arrival. tragic morning incident in Aurangabad in Maharashtra in which 16 of those workers were killed by a freight train.
Migrant workers were returning to Madhya Pradesh and had slept on the train tracks.
The provisional request, filed in a deleted PIL, has also referred to earlier statements made by the Center to the apex court saying it was told that “there was no person walking on the roads in an attempt to reach their cities originally”. / villages ”and, in addition, states and UTs will provide adequate facilities for migrant workers.
Referring to the tragic incident, lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava, in the guilty plea, said: “Issue appropriate instructions to the Union of India to show the cause despite orders … approved by this court in …, by that no concrete measures have been taken to prevent the heartbreaking train accident, which took place in the village of Gadhejalgaon in the Aurangabad district on May 8 at 5:30 a.m. (morning) in which at least sixteen (16) Migrant workers, who were walking on foot, were killed. ”
He requested an address from the Center to ask all district collectors to “immediately identify migrant workers moving / abandoning in their respective districts, immediately transferring them to the nearest shelters / camps, providing them with sufficient food, water, medications and counseling etc. and after proper medical examination, be sure to provide them with free transportation to their respective native villages, with the utmost dignity. “
The statement says the deceased workers belonged to the Shahdol and Umaria districts of Madhya Pradesh and were walking from Jalna in Maharashtra to the Aurangabad train station to board the trains and reach the home cities.
After walking for several kilometers, they decided to rest on the railroad tracks between Satana and Karmad and were run over by a freight train, he said.
Previously, the superior court had ordered the PIL to seek the welfare of migrant workers during the pandemic and the subsequent lockout, saying that the Center and the states are taking appropriate measures to provide aid to migrant workers.
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