More than 500 sent to MP from shelter homes in Jaipur

TNN | Updated: May 1, 2020, 11:46 IST

About 450 migrant workers were sent to Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday on 20-22 roadways buses.

JAIPUR: Around 517 migrant workers from Madhya Pradesh were sent to their home state from the shelter homes in Jaipur on roadways buses.
Of the total, 161 were sent from nine shelter homes in Jaipur sub-division. On Thursday night, 67 migrant workers were sent to Madhya Pradesh, said Aamer SDM Laxmikant Katara.
Meanwhile, 70 students studying in Sanganer sub-division were sent to their home districts in Barmer and Chittorgarh on Wednesday. About 17 more were sent from Sanganer and Aamer on Thursday night.
“These 450 migrant workers were sent to Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday on 20-22 roadways buses. Now, there are around 1,100 migrant workers left in the shelter homes in the district. Some even used personal vehicles to leave for their homes in the state,” said additional district magistrate-IV Ashok Kumar.
He also said the registration of migrant workers, who are willing to leave for their states, is still going on in RIICO and other industrial areas. “They will be divided into groups only after the database comes. Only after that they will be sent to their respective states,” he added.
“The roadways buses from Jaipur were sent to Jhalawar, Dholpur, Sawai Madhopur and Chittorgarh borders. From Jaipur sub-division, 161 migrant workers were sent to Madhya Pradesh. We still have 500 migrant labourers from Uttar Pradesh in the shelter homes. In all, there would be around 550 people,” said Jaipur block sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Yugantar Sharma.
Sanganer SDM Ghanshyam Sharma said 51 migrant labourers were sent to Madhya Pradesh from the shelter home in Sanganer. “On Wednesday, around 70 students were sent to their homes in Barmer and Chittorgarh.” Earlier, 581 students, who were studying in several coaching centres and other institutes in Jaipur, were sent to their home districts by roadways buses on Monday night.