Bihar: 1.4 lakh return home by 83 special trains

PATNA: Altogether 1.4 lakh people stranded in 10 states, including migrant workers, reached Bihar by 83 Shramik Special trains on Friday. Of these, 40,000 were from Gujarat alone.
Chief public relations officer (CPRO) of the East Central Railway (ECR), Rajesh Kumar, told this newspaper that 30 trains from Jamnagar, Ahmedabad, Godhra, Mehsana, Surat, Bharuch, Bhuj, Rajkot, Porbandar, Gandhidham, Udhna, Palanpur and Vadodara returned to Banka, Kishanganj, Madhubani, Purnea, Chhapra, Muzaffarpur, Khagaria, Gaya, Biharsharif, Ara, Danapur, Sasaram, Anugraha Narayan Road, Katihar and Nawada with 40,000 people on Friday.
“Besides, 14 other trains carrying 21,000 people came back to Bhagalpur, Banka, Saharsa, Supaul, Araria, Purnea, Jehanabad, Barauni, Madhubani, Sitamarhi, Danapur and Chhapra from Delhi. Two special trains from Nagalpalle in Telangana reached Katihar and Bhagalpur mostly with migrant workers on Friday,” the CPRO said, adding that trains from Dindigul (2), Tiruchirappalli (1), Coimbatore (1) and Tirupur (1) in Tamil Nadu reached Hajipur, Motihari, Darbhanga and Sitamarhi with 6,300 people. Three trains from Hisar, Ambala and Faridabad in Haryana brought back 3,700 migrant workers to Kishanganj, Muzaffarpur and Barauni. Four others from Bengaluru City and two from Hubli in Karnataka reached Madhubani, Samastipur, Araria, Darbhanga, Chhapra and Danapur on Friday. Two more trains from Jaipur and Udaipur in Rajasthan returned to Jehanabad and Barauni with 2,500 people.
“Special trains from Thane, Bhiwandi, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Panvel and Bandra in Maharashtra brought back 6,300 people to Darbhanga, Madhubani, Danapur and Motihari. Four other trains ferried stranded migrant workers from Buxar to Danapur from where they were taken to other places in the state,” the CPRO said.