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Amid the heavy influx of stranded labourers, the Uttar Pradesh government today claimed to have arranged for more than 1,000 trains so far to evacuate the migrants from other states.
Of the 1,044 Shramik Special trains, 834 have already arrived in UP, while 206 are expected to come in the next 2-3 days. On Wednesday, the state witnessed the arrival of maximum 100 trains.
“On a daily basis, between 150,000 and 200,000 labourers are returning by trains and buses,” UP additional chief secretary Awanish Kumar Awasthi said in Lucknow this evening.
So far, the largest number of 129 trains arrived in Gorakhpur, which
