Siddharthnagar (Uttar Pradesh), May 05 (ANI): On the day the central government clarified that it will bear 85% of train fare for transporting stranded migrant labourers, and the rest by respective state governments, a set of migrant workers, who reached Uttar Pradesh from Mumbai claimed they were made to pay for their tickets by the Railways. Ram Kalam, a migrant labourer who reached UP's Siddharthnagar from Mumbai's Nalasopara via train, said that he was made to pay Rs 740 as train fare in Mumbai.
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