Over 65,000 people reach Bihar by 53 special trains

PATNA: Altogether 53 Shramik special trains carrying nearly 65,000 migrant workers, students and others stranded in 11 states reached different places in Bihar on Tuesday. This was the highest number of Shramik special trains coming to Bihar in a day since May 2.
Railways is also running Shramik special trains daily from Karamnasa in Uttar Pradesh to Katihar, Danapur and Madhubani to ferry migrant workers stuck on the UP-Bihar border.
ECR chief public relations officer (CPRO) Rajesh Kumar said railways has decided to run another Shramik special train between Durg in Chhatisgarh to Darbhanga on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, three Shramik special trains from Bengaluru carrying 3800 migrants and students reached Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur and Katihar while four such trains from Delhi reached Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur with 5100 passengers.
Two more special trains from Ghatkesar in Telangana reached Barauni and Hajipur. Similarly, Shramik special trains from Kalburgi in Karnataka, Karaikal in Puducherry, Nagercoli in Tamil Nadu and Nellore in Andhra Pradesh ferried 5000 migrants to Saharsa, Purnea, Hajipur and Bettiah. Four trains from Firozpur, Jalandhar and Ludhiana in Punjab reached Kishanganj, Purnea, Araria and Gaya.
Three Shramik special trains from Pune and one each from Kolhapur, Thane, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Mumbai and Panvel in Maharashtra carrying about 10,000 migrants and students reached Bettiah, Motihari, Jasidih, Darhanga, Chhapra and Bhagalpur.
Likewise, another special train carrying over a thousand migrant labourers arrived at Nawada railway station from Tripura on Monday night. Nawada DM, SP, station master, RPF and GRP personnel received them with food packets and bottled RO water. The migrants were screened before being despatched by sanitized buses to the respective quarantine centres in the district.
(With inputs from Shashi Bhushan Sinha in Nawada)