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[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Indian Railways has deployed more than 70 special trains to transport nearly 80,000 stranded migrant workers, students, and tourists in the past five days. Rail authorities said 55 special trains had started or completed the one-way trip as of Monday and nearly 30 more trains were scheduled …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The government clashed with Congress and other opposition parties over allegations that migrant workers were being asked to pay fees to travel to their home cities with the railroads, saying that neither the department nor the Center were collecting the ticket money of the passengers in the …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The government has not talked about charging anything from migrant laborers as 85 per cent of the transportation cost is borne by the railways and 15 per cent by state governments, the Center said on Monday amid a row over the national transporter allegedly charging the workers …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Congresswoman Sonia Gandhi said Monday that Congressional committees in several states will pay for free migrant and worker travel. Monday morning’s announcement came in the wake of widespread criticism of the Indian Railways for not allowing free travel for migrants and workers and calling on state governments …

[ad_1] Maharashtra Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray urged the Center on Sunday (April 3) not to charge the railway fee to migrant workers returning home due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. CM Thackeray tweeted the request on Sunday night mentioning that the workers are from an extremely poor environment and that …

[ad_1] Written by Sreenivas Janyala The | Hyderabad | Posted: May 3, 2020 9:25:24 pm Migrant workers were sent to their home states via special trains at Nashik in Maharashtra on May 1, 2020 (Photo Express by Prashant Nadkar) The Andhra Pradesh government has organized nine special trains to bring …

[ad_1] LUCKNOW: Samajwadi party chief Akhilesh Yadav attacked the central and state governments on Sunday for collecting money to bring migrant workers back on special trains. “Now BJP supporters must be thinking that if the poor sectors of society are being charged for their return home, then what will happen …

[ad_1] Bhubaneswar: About 1,200 Odisha migrant workers, who are stranded in Kerala, boarded one of half a dozen point-to-point Shramik special trains, operated by Indian Railways, on Friday night as the first group of workers will arrive in the state before the nationwide blockade restrictions in place, which have been …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: On Thursday, authorities from all states began preparations to help thousands of migrant workers and students reach their homes from different parts of the country where they are stranded for more than a month due to the COVID-19 blockade, even when the deadly virus infection spread In …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday sought to know from the Center whether it had plans to transport trapped migrant workers to their home states, but admonished activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan for repeatedly tweeting about the public’s loss of faith in court, telling him: “If you had no …