Famished migrant workers look for foothold in buses to head back home

Delhi | Sunday | 29th March, 2020

Summary:

New Delhi: It was havoc-like situation at the highways connecting Delhi-NCR, as movement of thousands migrants workers continued on Saturday. Earlier in the day, the Uttar Pradesh government announced that it has arranged 1,000 buses to ferry migrant labourers stranded in the border districts. Although the police had made people stand in three queues, there was a steady flow of migrant workers. Meanwhile, the Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration have also started the private buses to ferry migrant workers and daily wage labourers to their hometowns. Even thoughboth state government and police authorities are trying to provide food and ration in different areas, many areas are without food..