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UP govt claims 27,000 buses deployed to ferry migrants as Cong offers help

UP chief minister had instructed 200 additional buses be arranged at each of the 75 districts apart from the roadways buses

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Lockdown 4.0: Migrants at a government school to get screened before boarding buses for the Anand Vihar Railway Station to leave for their native places, in east Delhi. Photo: PTI

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow

3 min read Last Updated : May 19 2020 | 8:22 PM IST

Amid the faceoff with Congress over the party’s offer to ply 1,000 buses for migrants, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on Tuesday claimed to have deployed a fleet of nearly 27,000 buses to ferry the incoming labourers.

According to the government, while 12,000 buses belong to the roadways department, about 15,000 buses have been sourced by the respective district magistrates at the local level from private organisations.

Recently, UP Chief Minister Adityanath had ordered that 200 additional buses be arranged in each of the 75 districts apart from the roadways buses in view of the heavy influx of stranded

Topics : Coronavirus Lockdown Yogi Adityanath Congress Priyanka Gandhi migrant crisis

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