Friday, December 12, 2025 | 06:04 PM ISTहिंदी में पढें
Business Standard
Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

Over 450 Shramik trains brought half a million migrants home: Railways

As of May 11, 2020, a total of 49,624 migrants have been safely brought in at different stations in NCR in 42 terminating trains

A migrant wearing a protective mask boards a train to Jharkhand, during the nationwide lockdown, in Jalandhar. Photo: PTI
premium

A migrant wearing a protective mask boards a train to Jharkhand, during the nationwide lockdown, in Jalandhar. Photo: PTI

BS Web TeamAgencies New Delhi
The Indian Railways has run over 450 'Shramik Special trains' and brought over 500,000 migrant workers to their respective states, said RD Bajpai, Railways Executive Director.

"We have run more than 450 'Shramik Special trains' and brought over 500,000 migrants to their respective states. Our target is to run more than 100 trains a day and we will achieve it," Bajpai told ANI.

The North Central Railway said as many as 50,000 migrants have been brought back in 42 terminating Shramik Special trains at different stations in the region.

As of May 11, 2020, a total of 49,624 migrants have