CHANDIGARH: As many as 23,000 people — most of them migrant labourers — stranded in the city owing to the lockdown have signed up to be sent back home.
Many students and tourists from different states trapped following the curfew are also in the list that the administration has made after distributing forms and putting up information online in the past few days.
Whether they will be sent by a bus or train is not yet decided. Sources in the administration said officials would soon hold talks with their counterparts in different states and chalk out a plan to ferry the people back home.
“A lot of money will be required. We will have to talk to the states first and then a decision will be taken. We have not yet decided about the mode of transportation. Both the bus and train options are there,” sources said.
Most of those who have registered are migrant labourers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The registration has been done online mode, but the UT also got details from other sources and forms that they distributed. “In the form, people have to fill up details like their name, age and the state they want to go back,” an official said.
The administration has been making queries from Ambala division about the fare to states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
G M Singh, divisional railway manager, Ambala, said UT officials made queries about the fare but did not make any demand on the number of “Shramik Special” trains yet. He said the division has offered them their services. He said decision to make arrangements for trains will be made after the number of passengers will be sent to the division.
Officials said 10 to 15 people daily are visiting the railway station to inquire about services from the city.
Many students and tourists from different states trapped following the curfew are also in the list that the administration has made after distributing forms and putting up information online in the past few days.
Whether they will be sent by a bus or train is not yet decided. Sources in the administration said officials would soon hold talks with their counterparts in different states and chalk out a plan to ferry the people back home.
“A lot of money will be required. We will have to talk to the states first and then a decision will be taken. We have not yet decided about the mode of transportation. Both the bus and train options are there,” sources said.
Most of those who have registered are migrant labourers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The registration has been done online mode, but the UT also got details from other sources and forms that they distributed. “In the form, people have to fill up details like their name, age and the state they want to go back,” an official said.
The administration has been making queries from Ambala division about the fare to states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
G M Singh, divisional railway manager, Ambala, said UT officials made queries about the fare but did not make any demand on the number of “Shramik Special” trains yet. He said the division has offered them their services. He said decision to make arrangements for trains will be made after the number of passengers will be sent to the division.
Officials said 10 to 15 people daily are visiting the railway station to inquire about services from the city.
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