50 migrant families hold protest

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, May 21

Around 50 families of migrant workers on Thursday held a protest here by banging empty utensils and raising slogans against the state government for failing to help them during lockdown. The families belong to Azamgarh in Chhattisgarh and said they were not provided food or relief from the government.

“We want to go back to our native village and have registered ourselves on the IRCTC portal on May 3. Since then we have not received any reply or confirmation of our tickets and no food ration has been provided to us. We are starving and some of us have been turned out of their rented homes by landlords. We are struggling for survival,” said Hari Sharan, a daily wager.

He said 10 of them had approached the DC few days back to request him that they be given permission to travel back to their homes. “If the government cannot help us, we will walk like many others. There is no other solution in sight,” he said.