CM urges migrant workers not to walk back home

CM urges migrant workers not to walk back home

Arrangements are being made for safe return: Palaniswami

17/05/2020, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ,CHENNAI

Plans are being made to send about 10,000 migrant workers to their home States daily, the CM said. A. SHAIKMOHIDEEN

Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Saturday urged migrant workers against walking all the way back home or making their own vehicle arrangements to their native States, as the Tamil Nadu government was arranging trains for them.

“Since the Tamil Nadu government is bearing the travel expenses and making all arrangements to send migrant workers to their States with the concurrence of respective States, I appeal to them not to walk or make vehicle arrangements to go back. I appeal to them to remain in their camps till then,” Mr. Palaniswami said in a statement.

Between May 6 and 15, 55,473 migrant workers were sent to Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and the northeastern States on 43 trains, with the concurrence of the respective State governments, he said.

Plans are being made to send about 10,000 migrant workers to their home States, daily, Mr. Palaniswami said.

He also said that the State government was coordinating all efforts to send migrant workers to their native States based on their requests.

In another statement, Mr. Palaniswami condoled the killing of over 20 persons in an accident in Auriya district in Uttar Pradesh, where a truck carrying migrant workers collided with a vehicle.

In a statement, he also wished a speedy recovery to those injured in the accident.