UP govt plans daily evacuation of 45,000 stranded labourers amid lockdown

Yogi government urges Maharashtra to dispatch 10 trains a day

Uttar Pradesh (UP) will bring home nearly 45,000 migrant workers, aiming to transport in week a million stranded in other states during a national lockdown to contain the coronavirus.

Special trains and buses will transport UP workers from Maharashtra, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Kerala, Uttarakhand and Telangana, said the government on Thursday.

In the past few days, more than 100,000 labourers and students stuck in other states were brought back to UP, and the government has decided to accelerate this process further.

Chairing a review meeting here, chief minister Yogi Adityanath instructed officials to ensure that about 30,000 labourers