Bihar: 21,000 more migrants come back by 18 special trains

PATNA: Altogether 21,600 migrant workers, students and others stranded in various states owing to the nationwide lockdown reached Bihar by 18 Shramik Special trains from New Delhi and nine other states on Monday.
The railways has so far run 102 Shramik specials to Bihar so far, ferrying around 1.2lakh stranded people since May 2.
Danapur DR) Sunil Kumar said, “Three Shramik special trains, carrying about 3,500 migrant workers, students and others reached Danapur from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, Katpadi in Tamil Nadu and Rayanapadu in Andhra Pradesh on Monday.”
He added, “The Danapur administration had deployed about 150 railway security personnel and healthcare staff at Danapur station premises to clear the rush of passengers smoothly from three special trains.”
Kumar further informed that the railways took extra care to maintain social distancing norms when passengers got down from the trains and each one of them was asked to fill a self-declaration form to keep records of their journey.
ECR chief public relations officer Rajesh Kumar said a special train from Rohtak in Haryana, carrying nearly 1,200 migrants and other stranded people reached Araria early on Monday morning, while special train from Rewari in Haryana reached Katihar with around 1170 migrant workers and other persons on Monday afternoon.
Similarly, a special train from Bhatinda in Punjab reached Muzaffarpur with around 1,200 migrant workers, students and others around 11.30 am on Monday.
Another special train from Bengaluru in Karnataka, carrying mostly migrant workers and students reached Darbhanga on Monday afternoon, while a special train from Amritsar reached Barauni with about 1,200 migrants around 12 pm.
A Shramik special train from Ludhiana reached Bettiah station around 11.30 am on Monday with 1,170 migrant workers and other stranded people .
A Shramik special from Amravati in Maharashtra carrying about 1,200 migrants and others reached Barauni on Monday afternoon, while special train from Napalapalle in Telangana reached Bhagalpur. Another special train from Ajmer in Rajasthan reached Purnea with about 1160 passengers.
Two special trains from Barmer and Kota in Rajasthan, carrying about 2,300 people reached Motihari and Siwan, while special train from New Delhi reached Muzaffarpur in the afternoon. Three other special trains from Mumbai, Surat and Rajkot reached Khagaria, Gaya and Chhapra. Shramik special from Rajkot in Gujarat reached Chhapra, carrying 1,206 migrants.
Like previous occasions, all passengers were screened, sanitized before they were allowed to board buses for quarantine camps located in their home districts or home blocks.
(With inputs from H K Verma in Chhapra)