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Yogi Adityanath to deploy buses, use trains to bring back migrants home

A migrant worker’s family from Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi journeying back to their home state during lockdown at Sarai Kale Khan in New Delhi on May 18. (Photo by Burhaan Kinu/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on May 18, 2020, 7:58 PM IST

Uttar Pradesh okays Priyanka Gandhi’s request for Congress to run 1,000 buses for migrants

The buses will be run by the Congress and the party will bear the entire expense. (HT photo)

Updated on May 18, 2020, 5:36 PM IST

Migrants pelt stones at police, public in Ahmedabad

Nearly 100 migrants suddenly came on the road in the morning and engaged in indiscriminate stone-pelting.

Updated on May 18, 2020, 1:54 PM IST

Sonu Sood arranges buses for migrant workers to send home in UP: ‘Visuals of migrants, walking a deadly distance, made me sad’

Sonu Sood had arranged buses to take migrant workers to Karnataka too.

Updated on May 17, 2020, 4:36 PM IST

Lockdown: Day after UP govt’s order, migrants on foot stopped at Delhi border by police

On Sunday, the police stopped the migrant workers at the UP-Gate border while they were trying to cross over to Ghaziabad in UP.

Updated on May 17, 2020, 3:22 PM IST

Courting death and injury, scores of migrants killed in accidents on way home

Many of the tragedies occurred in the dark, which is when it is cooler to walk, and many people were caught in their sleep.

Updated on May 16, 2020, 7:17 PM IST

‘State governments failed’: RSS-backed Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh on migrants’ plight

The labour wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) particularly targeted the governments of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Delhi, Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Gujarat and Jharkhand for failing to take care of the migrants. (Photo by Raj K Raj/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on May 16, 2020, 6:54 PM IST

24 migrants killed in road accident in Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya, CM Adityanath orders probe

The truck trolley was carrying migrant labourers from Jaipur and Bharatpur districts of Rajasthan and most of them from UP’s Kushinagar, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.

Updated on May 16, 2020, 11:52 AM IST

UP CM Adityanath orders probe into road accident in Auraiya that killed 24 migrant workers

The migrant labourers, mostly from Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, were killed

Updated on May 16, 2020, 9:35 AM IST

Covid-19 and a realisation: The migrant worker is indispensable

A migrant carrying his child on shoulders, New Delhi, Friday, May 15, 2020.

Updated on May 16, 2020, 8:03 AM IST

State govt bearing transport fares of migrant workers: Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren

Jharkhand government is making all endeavours to bring back the 6.85 lakh stranded Jharkhand residents in a systematic manner, said CM Soren.

Updated on May 15, 2020, 1:14 PM IST

Over 50,000 migrant workers brought back to Jharkhand through Shramik Special trains

As many as 30,000 more have returned to Jharkhand by buses.

Updated on May 15, 2020, 12:58 PM IST

‘How can we stop it?’: Supreme Court on plea to halt migrant workers’ movement on roads

Migrant workers on bicycles loaded with their belongings during their journey back to their hometowns on national highway at Ghazipur Border in New Delhi. (Photo by Burhaan Kinu/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on May 15, 2020, 12:36 PM IST

‘How can we stop it?’: Supreme Court on plea to halt migrant workers’ movement on roads

The plea by lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava had pointed out the death of migrant labourers in train and road accidents as they took to walking in an effort to go home. (Photo Vipin Kumar/HT)

Updated on May 15, 2020, 1:03 PM IST

‘One nation, one ration card’ in Centre’s relief package for migrants

The FM also said that eight crore migrant workers who do not have either a central or state PDS card, will get 5 kilogram of grains per person and 1 kilogram of ‘chana’ for the next two months. (Photo by Raj K Raj/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on May 15, 2020, 10:05 PM IST

‘Destination address must’: Railways to passengers taking special trains

Passengers were seen waiting outside the New Delhi railway station to board the special trains. ( Biplov Bhuyan)

Updated on May 14, 2020, 3:20 PM IST

Migrant workers walking home put in a minibus. It crashes injuring 15

On Wednesday, they were stopped at the Boudh district by officials who arranged a minibus for them to help them reach Keonjhar. However, at Thakurgarh area of Angul district last night, the minibus veered off the main road and crashed into a tree. (Photo @odisha_police)

Updated on May 14, 2020, 2:20 PM IST

Truck collision in Madhya Pradesh kills at least 8 labourers, 50 injured

Image for representation. The injured were moved to the nearest district hospital.

Updated on May 14, 2020, 11:37 AM IST

Railways allows issue of tickets to wait-listed passengers, may run more trains

Migrant workers and their families standing in a queue to board the Shramik Express for home at Old Delhi Railway Station (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)

Updated on May 13, 2020, 10:56 PM IST

‘Gave Rs 1 cr to railways’: Uttarakhand on migrants made to pay train fare

The state government said that the reports were an effort to tarnish the government’s image. (Photo Yogendra Kumar/Hindustan Times)

Updated on May 13, 2020, 6:01 PM IST

How UP, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh plan to provide jobs to returning migrants

In UP, where over nine lakh migrant workers have returned so far, minister Siddharth Nath Singh said the numbers are not unrealistic as the state already has schemes that can absorb the additional workforce. (Photo by Mohd Zakir/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on May 12, 2020, 7:17 PM IST

Pressure mounts on MP govt, restrictions on Maha border lifted for UP and Bihar labourers

Sub-divisional magistrate at Sendhwa Ghanshyam Dhangar said, “The major problem that we are facing is the health of labourers affected by dehydration. Eight people died during the past 20 days.”

Updated on May 12, 2020, 12:26 PM IST

Autorickshaws, bicycles: How migrants are covering 1,600-km Mumbai-Gorakhpur journey

Many migrant workers have left Mumbai on bicycles, and are heading towards their hometown in Uttar Pradesh.

Updated on May 12, 2020, 10:13 AM IST

Railways geared up to run 300 Shramik Special trains a day: Piyush Goyal

Migrants sit on a platform while waiting to board 'Shramik Special' train for Ayodhya at a railway station, during the ongoing Covid-19 , in Patiala, Sunday, May 10, 2020.

Updated on May 11, 2020, 2:27 AM IST

Uttarakhand evacuates 26,000 migrants, awaits five special trains

Stranded migrant workers wait for buses bound to their native state – Uttarakhand in Gurugram.

Updated on May 10, 2020, 4:39 PM IST

Bodies of migrant workers killed in Maharashtra train accident brought back to native place

People stand outside an ambulance after loading the body of victims of a train accident in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, Friday, May 8, 2020.

Updated on May 9, 2020, 7:41 PM IST

Chhattisgarh gets 4 Shramik Special trains to bring migrant workers home

On May 1, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel had written to Railway minister Piyush Goyal requesting him to run 28 trains from various cities of the country so that migrant labourers from Chhattisgarh can come back home. (HT photo)

Updated on May 9, 2020, 7:29 PM IST

Needed: A law to protect domestic workers | Opinion

Vaishali Patkar, from Aundh Vikas Mandal volunteered to help domestic workers and locals understand Covid-19, to help curtail misinformation in Pune. Altruism is not a strong enough force to protect the interests of workers, who constitute some of the most vulnerable and marginalised sections of society

Updated on May 9, 2020, 7:17 PM IST

India’s migrant workers deserve better than this, writes Mark Tully

Migrant workers, dismissed by employers, enjoying no protection from their governments, often thrown out of their accommodation by their landlords, in urgent need of food transport and money, have been driven by desperation to walk home.

Updated on May 9, 2020, 7:17 PM IST

‘Have 7-stage plan to bring back migrants’: Trinamool on Amit Shah’s letter

Amit Shah told Mamata Banerjee in a letter that West Bengal was meting out “injustice” to Bengali migrant workers stranded across the country by not allowing “shramik” (worker) trains run by the railways to reach the state. (Photo by Biplov Bhuyan/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on May 9, 2020, 3:47 PM IST

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