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Lockdown: 1.35 mn migrant labourers return to UP amid Covid-19 crisis

Now, the state government has arranged for trains from Delhi, apart from intrastate trains from Noida, Ghaziabad and Jhansi to expedite the shifting of stranded labourers

Health workers conduct thermal screening of passengers who have arrived from Delhi by a special train at Howrah station, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Kolkata
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Health workers conduct thermal screening of passengers who have arrived from Delhi by a special train at Howrah station, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Kolkata

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
With the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown completing 50 days, nearly 1.35 million migrant labourers have so far returned to Uttar Pradesh by trains, buses and other means.

Of these, an estimated 650,000 labourers returned during the months of March and April, when the lockdown was first announced, via the Delhi border. They were later ferried by UP roadways buses to their respective districts in UP.

Later, when the Centre decided to ply interstate ‘Shramik Special’ trains for the stranded workers, about 470,000 workers arrived in UP on trains from different states.

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