Making sure there’s adequate food and water during the journey that could stretch up to three days was yet another task.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asked the administration to prepare for quarantine and food for one million workers returning to the state. There are around 1.04 million workers residing in 26,476 relief camps in the country, the Central government told the Supreme Court recently, but these are conservative estimates.
As Punjab CM Amarinder Singh stated in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, Ludhiana alone has over 700,000 migrant workers. He said the state has over a million workers involved in agriculture and industry and 70 per cent of these hail from Bihar.
“If we follow social distancing norms, about 170,000 buses will be required to bring 2.5 million registered labourers of Bihar stranded in different states,” Bihar minister Ashok Chaudhary said. He said conditions were not suitable for his government to bring migrant workers back.
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