320 migrant labourers leave for Rajasthan free of cost by 13 buses

KANPUR: The district administration officials sent back as many as 320 migrant labourers to Rajasthan by 13 buses from the Jhakarkati inter-state bus terminal here on Thursday.
Before allowing the migrants to board buses, the officials recorded their names, addresses and their contact numbers. They also put quarantine seal after their medical checkup.
The migrant labourers, which included women and their children, who could not leave the city earlier for the native places due to the lockdown , reached the bus terminus in the morning where the health department teams recorded their names, addresses and contact number and medically examined them. They also gave lunch packets and water bottles to the migrants.
The buses left the city at 12 noon. All the buses were earlier sanitized and their drivers were instructed not to stop their vehicles at any crowded areas.
ADM (second) Amit Kumar Rathore who had supervised the arrangement at the bus terminus, said that all passengers were scanned, and lunch packets and drinking water bottles were given to them. The roadways have not charged any money from them, he added.