After Months Of Lockdown, Thousands of Migrant Workers Are Finally Heading Back Home

Stranded people queue to board on a special train going to West Bengal. The trains service was started on the request of states like Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Bihar, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana to ferry migrant workers back to their home states.?

The Special train left for Lucknow on Sunday carrying workers from Nagpur railway station who had been stranded in Nagpur. Passengers have been accommodated in the train following safety measures to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. The train carrying 1180 passengers will reach Lucknow directly and the administration will make arrangements for everyone to go to their respective homes, the administration said.

Nagpur division of Central Railway flagged off Shramik Express a 24 coach special train carrying migrants to Lucknow from Nagpur Station.

People are in a queue outside the Samta Nagar police station at Kandivali for submitting travel form after government allows a moment of stranded migrants and other persons to their respective destinations.

People stand in a long queue outside the Kurar police station at Malad for submitting travel form after government allows a moment of stranded migrants and other persons to their respective destinations. The Indian Railways which had suspended service even before the lockdown came into effect has resumed limited operations with the Shramik Express only to ferry stranded migrant workers.??

The first Shramik special train from the Mumbai Metropolitan region carrying around 1200 stranded migrants workers was scheduled to leave Bhivandi for Gorakhpur Uttar Pradesh. The government said in a statement, adding food and water arrangements have been made for passengers before the travel.

Volunteers distribute drinking water sachets to passengers of a bus ferrying migrant workers to their hometowns as Karnataka government opened inter-state transport buses for people stranded during the government-imposed nationwide lockdown against the spread of COVID-19, in Bangalore.

Nearly 500 Delhi students stranded at coaching hub Kota in Rajasthan during the lockdown reached Kashmere Gate ISBT here in 40 buses early Sunday morning. The students sent to their homes from Kashmere Gate ISBT after medical tests.

Thousands of migrants rush, at BMTC bus stand after a government announcement of Continuation of Covid-19 lockdown,

Migrant workers, who were stranded in the western state of Gujarat due to a lockdown imposed by the government to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease wait to board a train at a railway station to leave for their home state of Uttar Pradesh, in Ahmedabad.