Special trains bring back 20k more migrants home

Prayagraj: Special trains continued to bring migrants native to Uttar Pradesh back home on Sunday. Twelve trains arriving at various stations under North Central Railways brought 20,410 migrants on Sunday.
The routes on which these trains plied were Ahemdabad-Kanpur (2,021 passengers), Jaipur-Kanpur (1,600 passengers), Rajkot-Aligarh (1,600 passengers), Mehsana-Aligarh (1,791 passengers), Surat-Mirzapur (3,200 passengers), Kolahapur -Prayagraj (1,600 passengers), Surat-Prayagraj (3,200 passengers), Ahmedabad -Banda (1,726 passengers) and Bhilwara -Chitrakoot (1,197 passengers).
Chief public relations officer of NCR Ajeet Kumar Singh said, “By Sunday, special trains had safely ferried 1,51,590 migrants to UP at different stations of North Central Railway. There were 105 terminating trains and eight passing trains. These trains terminated at various NCR stations which included Sonbhadra (one train), Prayagraj (36 trains), Fatehpur (five trains), Etah (one train), Etawah (one train), Aligarh (four trains), Kanpur (17 trains), Agra Cantonment (six trains), Gwalior (nine trains), Orai (three trains), Banda (eight trains), Chattarpur (six trains), Mirzapur (five trains), Tikamgarh (two trains) and Chitrakoot (one train).”