Train carrying 1,200 migrants arrives from Ahmedabad

TNN | May 5, 2020, 04:11 IST

Migrant workers stranded in Ahmedabad reach city on Sunday

Kanpur: A special train from Ahmedabad carrying around 1,200 migrant workers native to Kanpur and nearby districts including Unnao, Kanpur Dehat, Fatehpur, Kannauj, Jalaun and Jhansi, reached Kanpur Central railway station on Sunday morning.
Senior railway, RPF and GRP officials were present at the station to receive them. After the migrant workers got off the train, RPF and GRP officials escorted them to the passenger hall. They were later given water bottles and food packets.
A team of health department registered details of the migrant workers and divided them into separate groups according to the districts they belonged. The migrants underwent thermal screening. Thereafter, they boarded 40 special buses of state transport department which ferried them to their respective districts.
Ambulances were also parked outside the station to take suspected persons to quarantine centres and hospitals.