Sudhir Kumar / New Delhi

The Government has said, Indian Railways is ready to run Shramik Special trains from all the districts connected by it to ensure safer and quicker transportation of migrants.

Union Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal has asked the District Collectors of the country to prepare a list of stranded labourers and destination, and apply it to railways through State nodal officer. Indian Railways has got the capacity to run almost 300 Shramik special trains a day.

The Ministry of Railways in a statement said, full capacity operationalisation of the railways Rakes would provide significant relief to the migrants across the country who are seeking to go to their home states. It said, once the information about migrants wishing to go back to their home States is made available from each district, then Railways can take further action to help operationalise the trains.

It said, so far more than 15 lakh migrants have already been transported by the Railways to their home states and almost 1150 Shramik Special trains have been operationalised. It said, Indian Railways can easily transport almost double number of migrants per day