Bihar: Workers receive rousing welcome at Sitamarhi railway station

SITAMARHI: A Shramik special train from Ahmedabad in Gujarat arrived at Sitamarhi railway station with 1,159 migrant workers on Wednesday morning. The migrant workers were upbeat on reaching their home state and warmly welcomed by the district administration.
Platform number one, on which the special train arrived, was adorned with flowers and balloons. The passengers were given a rousing welcome and were provided food packets and water bottles.
Sitamarhi DM Abhilasha Kumari Sharma, SP Anil Kumar and other senior officials were also present at the station. Masks were distributed among unmasked passengers. While maintaining social distancing and sanitization process, a list of passenger details was prepared which included their cell phone numbers. Thermal screening of each and every worker was done by a large contingent of medical team.
Altogether 1,075 migrants of Sitamarhi and Sheohar districts were sent by a bus to several block and panchayat-level quarantine centres. Remaining 84 workers of East Champaran, West Champaran and Gopalganj districts were also sent by buses, following the norm of social distancing.
The Sitamarhi district administration has set up 1,224 panchayat and 73 block-level quarantine centres with all facilities.