Lockdown: UP govt starts bringing back migrant labourers from Haryana

Deploys fleet of 82 buses to ferry nearly 11,000 workers, who will be given a ration kit and Rs 1,000 cash support

In less than 24 hours of announcing plans to bring back migrant labourers from Uttar Pradesh stuck in other states following the lockdown, the Adityanath government deployed a fleet of 82 buses to bring back such workers from Haryana.

So far, 2,224 migrant labourers with roots in UP have already arrived at the state borders, and by tomorrow, the total number is expected to touch 11,000 from Haryana alone.

“These workers, belonging to 16 districts in UP, would undergo medical check-up and then serve the mandatory 14-day quarantine before they are allowed to go home,” UP additional chief secretary Awanish