Bihar labourers on way home find helping hands in city

Nagpur: A group of 11 workers from Madhubani in Bihar, who walked to Nagpur from a highway construction site near Kinwat in Nanded district, are held up here as they are not getting reservations for their further journey by train.
The workers did not even know where the highway they were building led to. All they knew was that it was a two-lane road, and they were somewhere near Kinwat.
They began the walk three days ago, hoping to catch a train to Bihar from Nagpur. They could not board the Shramik Special trains for workers as there is a separate registration process for it. The new rules post Covid-19 bar even those with wait-listed tickets from boarding a regular train, so there is huge rush for trains to Bihar. Even as the workers were ready to buy the tickets, they could not get a berth.
Former state minster and Congress leader Anees Ahmed extended a helping hand after the group spent two days on the street opposite the platform.
On Monday night, Ahmed drove down to the railway station and took them in cars and made arrangements for their stay at his nursing college at Lonara, which was earlier used as a quarantine facility also.
Food was arranged for them by the Radha Soami Satsang in the night. On Tuesday, Ahmed took the workers to the NMC shelter home at Ravi Nagar. He was also helped by additional commissioner of police Nilesh Bharne. They were shifted so that arrangements could be made for their further travel to Bihar along with other stranded workers.