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Updated: May 21, 2020 7:50:58 am
Mangal Singh, 32 years, on his way to Bihar with their 15-month-old son in Ghaziabad on Wednesday.
The Center has dispensed with the need of the targeted states with the consent of the ramp services of Shramik Special trains, but the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are the major states of destination for migrants, are dealing with logistics issues in the management of fever.
While Bihar has marked the limitations of the capacity of the Centre, Uttar Pradesh has tried to local trains for the movement within the state.
In a letter to the Union home Secretary, Ajay Bhalla, Bihar Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar has said that in order to receive extra trains, the state requires the train to transport passengers directly to the home districts of migrants to the passengers, and stop at the stations in these districts.
“If this is not followed and trains bring passengers from different districts, then it will create enormous difficulty for the administration,” Kumar said in his letter.
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Uttar Pradesh, which has received — and is expected to receive the largest number of Shramik Special trains, has written to the Railways Main applicant Electrical Multiple Units (MEMU) trains (local) on nine major routes in the state to replace the buses to transport the migrant workers to several districts.
Stranded in the cities due to the coronavirus-induced block of security, migrant workers have sought to go home (Express Photo by Prem Nath Pandey)
Most of the Shramik Special in Bihar are carrying passengers to the central points as Danapur near Patna, from where the 30 bus passengers of each train to their districts.
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“We are handling about 50 trains per day, which means around a lakh passengers in a day. We have been receiving these trains as per our capacity. Consent is not a problem and all of the world stranded should come home. We have said that the Center of that if you want to give us more trains, then send the trains as per our requirement, or otherwise we will have difficulty in increasing the number of trains,” Kumar told The Indian Express.
Without hitting a discordant note to the Centre’s policy, the letter says that the state can get more trains if they are sent as a proposal.
“If the passengers are sent in an appropriate manner as mentioned above, reduces the load on us in the transportation of migrant workers and, in that case, we can even receive trains every two hours, which is six trains per day in each route, which implies additional day of 54 trains,” the letter said.
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Bihar so far has received 367 Shramik Special and consent has already been given of 575 additional trains to Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.
“In the buses there may be chances of accidents; the driver of the bus may be tired, and we have taken all of the available buses, school buses and all, to the current trains,” Kumar said.
Bihar has ordered 54 additional trains daily, but in nine district-wise routes. The nine routes have three stops, each one in a district, carrying passengers, four distant districts. For example, a route of tapas Katihar-Purnea-Araria and it has been suggested that the passengers from these three districts and from Kishanganj to be on the trains on this route.
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Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary, Awanish Kumar Awasthi wrote to the Railways at the beginning of this week in search of MEMU trains for the transport of migrants in nine routes. So far they have received around 900 of the 1,800 Shramik Specials that began to operate from 1 May. Railway officials told The Indian Express that the proposal to regulate the services can completely eliminate the need for buses and other options that involve the roads. Twenty-five of the migrants died in a traffic accident at Auriya in Uttar Pradesh last week.
The suggested routes to connect places like Ghaziabad, Barabanki, Tundla, Kanpur, Varanasi, Shjahanpur etc “We have started a service from Lucknow to Shaharanpur, and some other places, and has examined the feasibility of other routes,” said Lucknow Divisional Railway Manager SK Tripathi.
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