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Ensuring safety of migrants key policy challenge for govt

Migrant workers at Delhi’s Yamuna Sports Complex board a transit bus which will ferry them to a Shramik Special train headed for Bihar on Friday.

Updated on May 9, 2020, 6:00 AM IST

Train operators told to spot and report to avoid deaths

Police officials investigating at the railway track where 16 migrant workers died and several injured in a train accident in Aurangabad on Friday.

Updated on May 9, 2020, 6:50 AM IST

AAP member Preeti Sharma Menon files complaint for Twitter abuse on post about train accident that killed 16 migrants

File photo of Aam Aadmi Party national executive member Preeti Sharma Menon

Updated on May 8, 2020, 3:37 PM IST

60 migrants from Goa sent back from Karnataka border over documents

Out of 65, only three to four were allowed to enter, the rest were made to return to the government run shelter where they have been housed since March 22. (Photo for representation by Sameer Sehgal/Hindustan Times)

Updated on May 7, 2020, 9:53 PM IST

Punjab’s first Shramik Express with 1,188 migrants heads for Jharkhand

Migrants maintain social distance on a Shramik Express train that left Jalandhar for Daltonganj in Jharkhand on Tuesday.

Published on May 5, 2020, 3:10 PM IST

Time for industry, society to win the trust of migrant labour | Opinion

Migrant workers walking back on their way back to their states, Ludhiana, Punjab, Sunday, May 3, 2020.

Updated on May 4, 2020, 8:01 AM IST

Lockdown: 6 migrant workers from Odisha among 8 injured in bus accidents on way back home

The bus, ferrying migrant workers from Gujarat to Odisha, fell into a roadside ditch on the Nagpur-Amravati National Highway in Maharashtra, on Sunday morning.

Updated on May 3, 2020, 2:41 PM IST

First special train ferrying UP migrants reaches Lucknow from Maharashtra’s Nashik

Migrant workers who arrived in Lucknow from Maharashtra on a Shramik Special train maintain social distancing at Charbagh railway station, May 3, 2020.

Updated on May 3, 2020, 8:13 AM IST

‘Injustice’: CM Soren on Rs 50 extra charged per migrant on special trains

The ticket fare on these trains includes the price of regular sleeper class tickets plus superfast charges of Rs 30 and an additional charge of Rs 20. (ANI photo)

Updated on May 2, 2020, 5:10 PM IST

Karnataka govt to charge one way bus fare from migrants returning to state

A passenger being undergoing thermal screening as he boards a bus at Bengaluru’s Majestic Bus Station, May 2, 2020.

Updated on May 2, 2020, 2:51 PM IST

Migrant workers reach Jharkhand’s Ranchi on special train; welcomed with roses, food packets

The first special train ferrying migrant workers from Telangana to Jharkhand reached Ranchi late on Friday night.

Updated on May 2, 2020, 10:49 AM IST

Special train to ferry migrants stranded in Covid-19 lockdown begins journey

The first train ferrying migrant workers from Telanagana to Jharkhand has nearly 1,200 migrants in 24 coaches

Updated on May 1, 2020, 2:06 PM IST

‘Make your arrangements’: Telangana to states ready to bring people home

The chief secretaries of the other states have been requested to advise their nodal authorities to get in touch with Telangana nodal authority for facilitation of shifting of the stranded people. (Photo by Amal KS/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Apr 30, 2020, 9:44 PM IST

Buses not feasible, need trains to ferry migrant workers, says Kerala CM

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said it was not feasible to run buses for such long distances.

Published on Apr 30, 2020, 8:52 PM IST

‘Strategy must’: Ashok Gehlot to Centre on getting migrant workers home

A group of migrant workers walk towards their native places during nationwide lockdown against the Covid-19 disease on Saturday. (ANI Photo)

Updated on Apr 25, 2020, 8:07 PM IST

Migrants paint school that gave them shelter

The workers began cleaning and painting the school to get over their boredom and also as a token of gratitude for Palsana residents for taking good care of them.

Updated on Apr 23, 2020, 4:05 AM IST

Coronavirus update: 64K migrant workers housed in relief camps in Pune

Migrant labourers stay in a shelter provided by PMC at Gogate Mahanagar Palika Schoo at Narayan Peth in Pune, India, on Monday, March 30, 2020.

Updated on Apr 6, 2020, 12:44 PM IST

SC seeks response from Centre on plea by activists for payment of wages to migrant workers

The plea said that fundamental right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution needs to be enforced for migrant workers who are severely affected by the lockdown ordered by the government on March 24.

Updated on Apr 3, 2020, 9:49 PM IST

Coronavirus update: UP DMs, CMOs told to screen migrants

Migrant workers in Haryana’s Rohtak headed back home to their towns and villages board on to Roadways buses on day 5 of the 21 day nationwide lockdown to check the spread of coronavirus.

Updated on Mar 30, 2020, 6:52 AM IST

Coronavirus update: Borders shut, migrant workers look for refuge in shelter homes

Daily wage workers and homeless people wait for food outside a government-run night shelter in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Updated on Mar 27, 2020, 7:12 AM IST

Covid-19: Sonia Gandhi writes to PM, seeks wage support for migrant workers

More than 600 districts have been placed under lockdown in an effort to stop the coronavirus disease or Covid-19 that has afflicted nearly 500 across India. (Photo Santosh Kumar/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Mar 24, 2020, 3:07 PM IST

Time to recognise migrants’ role as builders of our cities

In Gurugram, there are at least eight lakh migrant workers, most of who are unskilled.

Published on Feb 7, 2019, 2:58 PM IST

Rahul Gandhi blames GST, unemployment for attacks on migrant workers in Gujarat

Congress president Rahul Gandhi addresses a public meeting, at Bayana in Bharatpur on October 9.

Published on Oct 9, 2018, 11:23 PM IST

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