11 more spl trains leave with 12,000 migrants

Ludhiana: The railway authorities have increased their efforts to run more special trains from the city railway station with 11 trains laving the city station with more than 12,000 migrant labourers on board for Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, on Monday here. The authorities are managing these coaches by arranging it from different railway stations of the division.
With the rising number of passengers, the Railways have to pitch in most of its ticket checking staff for the work of issuing tickets to passengers and provide them proper seating arrangements after following all standard protocols.
But on the other hand, migrant labourers raised serious allegations against the working of the railway ticket staff by claiming that they were charging money from their co-workers who had travelled in specials trains to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in the past. One of labourers, Joginder Yadav, said, “Officials of the Railways as well the local administration had charged money from different co-workers of our locality for giving them permission to sit in the special trains, which is totally against the law. In these tough conditions, they are taking advantage and earning money from the poor.”
As per information, the 78th train left Ludhiana railway station for Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand.
On Monday, the first train left the city station at 11.45pm for Gaya (Bihar) railway station with more than 1,200 passengers on board. After that the next train with 22 coaches left for Sita Marhi (Bihar) in the evening. Another special train left the city railway station around 3 pm with around 1,188 passengers.
Railway authorities managed another 22-coach train for ferrying the migrants to Akbarpura railway station (Uttar Pradesh) during evening hours. After this seven more trains to different district of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar left the railway sttaion. One left for Azamgarh railway station, while another left for Gokarhpur railway station.
The sixth train left for Hardoi, seventh train for Basti station, eighth for Unnao station and the nine train left for Sultanpur. The last two trains left for Gonda and Hardoi railway stations in the evening hours of Monday.