1,300 migrants make their way back to home to Bihar
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Tribune News Service
Bathinda, May 10
Over 1,300 stranded migrants left for their homes in Bihar on the first Shramik Express special train on Sunday.
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Desperate migrants crowded the railway station on Sunday to take the train, posing challenge to social distancing.
The train will take the passengers up to Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, and from there, buses will take them to their own districts.
Migrants underwent medical screening before they were let on the train.
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Food packets, water bottles, juice, facemasks, sanitisers and biscuits will sustain them on the journey.
MLA Gidderbaha Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, who was at the station to see the train off, said the state government had spent around Rs 35 crore to send the migrants stranded here to reach their native places.
A second train for migrants that will leave today will take back 1,188 migrants, he said.
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