68k migrant workers sent back home during past few days from Hry

As many as 68,000 migrant workers, who wanted to return to their native states, have been sent back home from Haryana in past four days.

The Haryana government is providing for free transport facility through 5,000 buses and 100 'Special Shramik' trains for them to reach their states in a safe and systematic manner, an official statement said here on Sunday.

The first Shramik Special train from Haryana carrying 1,200 migrant workers, stranded in the state amid the coronavirus-led lockdown, had left for Katihar in Bihar from Hisar railway station on Wednesday.

The statement said after Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar's announcement to send every migrant worker, including agricultural labourers who wanted to go back to their home states, about 68,000 of them have been sent back free of cost through various trains and buses.

The statement said more than 1,100 buses carrying migrant workers have been sent to various states till date, including 890 buses to Uttar Pradesh, 152 to Rajasthan, 44 to Madhya Pradesh, nine each to Punjab and Uttarakhand and two to Himachal/