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[ad_1] Sixteen people were run over by a freight train near Maharashtra’s Aurangabad while they were sleeping on railway tracks after a long journey on foot in search of a transport to return home in Madhya Pradesh. After the accident, the railways called for new protocols to alert train drivers …

[ad_1] The tickets they gave to the migrants were priced at Rs 630. However, they claimed that they were made to pay up to 800 rupees per ticket. (News18) Contrary to claims that migrants are not asked to pay the train fares, the workers were not only made to pay …

[ad_1] Migrant workers continue to walk and bike home, even as railroads began operating special trains last week and some state governments deployed buses for stranded people due to the Covid-19 blockade. Some do not have the necessary documents to register on the trains; others just don’t want to wait …

[ad_1] “If I have to die, I would rather be close to my parents when I die. I don’t want to die here. “ Those were the words of Ramodar, an 18-year-old boy in Mumbai, desperate to go home to Uttar Pradesh and see his parents. He worked as a …

[ad_1] Migrant workers, who were stranded in Gujarat due to the closure, fill bottles with drinking water from a container as they wait to board a train that will take them to their home state of Bihar. (Reuters) The railways started special migrant trains on May 1 after the central …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Amid criticism that railroads were charging stranded migrant workers for transporting them home, sources said that payments for the 34 Shramik special trains that have been run so far have been made by state governments, except Maharashtra. A controversy erupted on Monday after several opposition parties demanded …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The government on Monday criticized Congress for politicizing the issue of migrant travel and said “sometimes the facts are contrary to emotion.” Shortly after Congress alleged that the government is charging train fees for migrant workers, the BJP issued a clarification that tickets are not being sold …

[ad_1] Written by Avishek G Dastidar Iram Siddique The | Mumbai, New Delhi | Updated: May 4, 2020 1:31:43 pm A special train carrying more than 800 migrant workers arrives at the Charbagh railway station in Lucknow from Nashik on Sunday. (AND ME) MANY MIGRANTS who board special Shramik trains …

[ad_1] HYDERABAD / RANCHI: In a midnight silence exercise meant to avoid a Bandra-like situation, 1,225 Jharkhand migrant workers were picked up from a camp near IIT-Hyderabad on Thursday and boarded a train home at dawn on Friday. , launch what turned out to be a centrally coordinated initiative to …

[ad_1] The Union Interior Ministry order that sanctioned interstate travel is only designed to allow stranded people to reach their homes, a senior government official told the Hindustan Times. “The operative word is stranded.” The approval of the Interior Ministry is mainly aimed at the 14 lakh people who have …