Five more trains bring back Odias
Bhubaneswar: Five more trains carrying over 5,500 people arrived at Jagannathpur station in Ganjam district and Khurda Road junction on Monday. So far, more than 8,000 migrant labourers have been brought back to the state from Gujarat, Kerala and Karnataka. Each train accommodates between 1,100 and 1,200 people.
A special train that started its journey from Chikbanawara in Bengaluru reached Khurda Road on Monday. This train left Chikbanawara station at 9.26 am on Sunday with around 1200 labourers. Another special train from Ernakulam in Kerala reached Jagannathpur station in Ganjam district. “The workers were screened at the station and their hands stamped. Them, they were put on vehicles and brought to quarantine centres,” said Ganjam collector Vijay Amruta Kulange.
Three other special trains carrying migrant workers, which had left Surat on Sunday, arrived in Jagannathpur station. Two of these trains reached in the morning and one arrived in the evening, said a railway officer. Besides trains, hundreds of migrants from Ganjam district have already returned from Surat by bus.
Western Railway sources said three more trains carrying workers had left Surat on Monday. These will reach the state on Tuesday. The Gujarat government conducted health check-up of the migrants before allowing them to travel. Sources said the railways might run more trains to Odisha. With the trains that will arrive on Tuesday, 10 Shramik Special trains have been sent to the state. Forty-three students from the district, who had been stranded in Kota in Rajasthan, arrived here on Monday after a 50-hour journey on two buses, accompanied by the mothers of three students.
(With inputs from Hrusikesh Mohanty in Berhampur)
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