Migrant Workers Who Were Killed On Rail Tracks Had Applied For Train Passes But Got No Response
Survivors from the Aurangabad train accident that killed 16 migrant workers who fell asleep on the track said that they had applied for e-pass on Madhya Pradesh government website. They had planned to board the train from Bhusawal on Friday but 16 people from the group were killed in the train accident.
Survivors from the Aurangabad train accident that killed 16 migrant workers who fell asleep on the track, said that they had applied for e-pass on Madhya Pradesh government website and had planned to board the train from Bhusawal on Friday.
But 16 people from the group were killed in the train accident that occurred on Aurangabad-Jalan railway line early Friday morning. The labourers of Umaria and Shahdol district died in the train accident.
They had walked 45 km from Jalna to Aurangabad, and were going towards Bhusawal, another 120 km, on foot in hopes of catching a train.
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Dhirendra Singh, one of the three survivors, said they had pending work and family back at home and so were unable to wait any longer to reach MP.
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh tweeted a video in which a survivor of the train tragedy claimed that they had applied for their return to their respective districts in Madhya Pradesh.
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Alleging that the MP government's "negligence and inaction" led to the death of the workers, Singh also called for a probe to know what arrangements the BJP-led government had done to bring back these workers after they applied for return.
"The workers killed in the train accident had asked for passes from the Shivraj government about fifteen days back. These 16 lives could have been saved, if passes were issued. Shivraj ji, these deaths are the result of jungle raj," Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee said in a tweet.
In a tweet, Digvijaya Singh said, "16 labourers of Umaria, Shahdol and Mandla districts of Madhya Pradesh were crushed to death in a train accident. I had asked Shivraj Singh Chauhan yesterday. Whether these workers were registered (for their return)?
"If this (they applied) had happened, what arrangements did the MP government make? Listen from the surviving workers," he said.
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A survivor of the Aurangabad train tragedy said that the disturbing images of the death of his companions in front of his eyes were haunting him and left him with the mental trauma that he will never be able to overcome in his life.
Shivmaan Singh, who is now travelling back to his native place in Madhya Pradesh in a train along with three other survivors and bodies of 16 victims, said that he has not been able to come to terms with the loss of his colleagues.
Another survivor, Veerendra Singh, said, "We had applied for travel passes a week ago in our home state, but didn't get any response. My wife and children are in my native village. We had decided to set off on our journey till Bhusawal on foot."
