Shade, shelter and food for migrants at toll plazas: UP CM Yogi Adityanath

LUCKNOW: As migrant workers continue to walk or pedal their way into the state, CM Yogi Adityanath on Monday directed officials to ensure they are provided shaded shelter, food and drinking water at toll plazas on national highways.
The government has also increased deployment of buses at the borders and instructed police and district administration to ensure nobody walks or uses bicycles or other means of unauthorised transport to travel within the state.
Additional chief secretary, home, Awanish Awasthi said, “A bottle of water will be given to every person at the state border as a mark of respectful welcome. The CM has insisted on intensive patrolling of all national and state highways, expressways and crossroads, especially during the night, to stop anyone travelling in unauthorised manner and ensure they are taken to quarantine shelters for testing and then sent home by bus.”
The CM said pulse oximeters should be used at the district level to ascertain the level of oxygen in a person’s body which will indicate the primary level of coronavirus infection. Oximeters will be made available to ASHA workers, ANMs and field employees as they are part of rural surveillance teams keeping a check on returning migrants. “In last 8-10 days, 590 trains have brought over 7.6 lakh migrants back to the state,” Awasthi said. In view of high number of workers returning to the state, the health department has bolstered its capacity to conduct tests for coronavirus infection.