Migrants aboard a special train to Bihar on Sunday. Tribune photo
Tribune News Service
Yamunanagar, May 24
In a major relief to migrant labourers, 4,600 of them were sent to Bihar by three special Shramik trains from Yamunanagar district on Sunday.
In the presence of Haryana Education Minister Kanwar Pal Gujjar and Yamunanagar MLA Ghanshyam Dass Arora, the first train carrying 1,550 migrants was sent to Barauni district of Bihar.
The migrant labourers were sent with food packets and water bottles after conducting their health check-up.
Mukul Kumar, DC
On this occasion, Deputy Commissioner Mukul Kumar, Superintendent of Police Himanshu Garg, Jagadhri SDM Darshan Kumar, City Magistrate Bharat Bhushan Kaushik and Superintendent of railway station SK Joshi were present.
“The migrant labourers were sent with food packets and water bottles after conducting their health check-up,” said Mukul Kumar, Deputy Commissioner.
According to information, two more trains carrying about 3,050 migrant labourers were also sent today from here for Muzaffarpur and Katihar districts of Bihar.
The Deputy Commissioner further said that those trains would go straight to Barauni, Muzaffarpur and Katihar districts and would not stop on the way.
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