UP Government Arranges 1,000 Buses For Stranded Migrant Workers
The buses later left for Kanpur, Ballia, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Azamgarh (Report)
Lucknow:
The Uttar Pradesh govt has organized for 1,000 buses to ferry migrant labourers who’re stranded at the border districts owing to a national lockdown, an reliable spokesman mentioned on Saturday.
Officers of the Shipping Division, bus drivers and conductors have been contacted on Friday night time to lend a hand the individuals who have been stranded in Noida, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar, and Aligarh, amongst different puts, he mentioned.
“Until past due within the night time, Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath used to be busy issuing directions for arranging buses for the aim,” the spokesman mentioned, including that the executive minister additionally directed officers to prepare for meals and water for such other people and their households.
On Saturday morning, senior law enforcement officials reached the Charbagh bus station in Lucknow to make certain that the ones arriving there have been supplied with meals and water.
The buses later left for Kanpur, Ballia, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Azamgarh, Faizabad, Basti, Pratapgarh, Sultanpur, Amethi, Rae Bareli, Gonda, Etawah, Bahraich, and Shravasti.
State’s DGP Hitesh Chandra Awasthi and Lucknow Police Commissioner Sujit Kumar Pande have been in my opinion provide on the bus station to observe the preparations, the spokesman added.
The 21-day lockdown imposed from Tuesday nighttime in a bid to halt the unfold of coronavirus has prompted a mass exodus of migrant employees from towns in numerous states to their villages.
