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Thousands of migrant workers gather at Mumbai’s Bandra station seeking a way to go back home

Mumbai, Apr 15 () A total of 25 migrant workerswere arrested early Wednesday from Santacruz in Mumbai whilethey were trying to move out of the city to Uttar Pradesh byhiding in a mini truck, a day after the national coronaviruslockdown was extended till May 3, police said.On Tuesday, hundreds of migrant workers, who have beenstuck in Mumbai since the first phase of the lockdown kickedin on March 24, gathered outside Bandra railway station hopingfor special trains to take them to their native states.A police official said a patrolling team interceptedthe vehicle in Meera Baugh area of Santacruz on suspicion inearly morning."Police found 25 men, all migrant workers, crammedinside the mini truck and brought them to police station," hesaid.The migrants, all residents of 'Bhaiyya Wadi' inSantacruz, were upset over the extension of the lockdown byanother 19 days.These people are daily wage workers who earn theirliving in Mumbai by doing odd jobs, the official said, addingthat they are desperate to go to their homes in other states."We have arrested 25 labourers and the tempo driverPralhad Yadav. All of them hail from Uttar Pradesh. We arelooking for the tempo owner," said Santacruz police stationsenior inspector Shriram Koregaonkar.He said each of the labourer had paid Rs 1500 for thejourney."We have booked them under various sections including188 (Disobeying the order promulgated by public servant) ofthe Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sections of the EpidemicDiseases Act," he said, adding that all the 25 people arereleased on bail.The inspector said the migrants were getting food, butare anxious to go their homes.In his address on Tuesday evening, Maharashtra ChiefMinister Uddhav Thackeray tried to reach out to migrantworkers stuck in Maharashtra and appealed them to stay put. ZANSK NSK

Mumbai: 25 migrant workers held for travelling during lockdown

Patna, Apr 16 () The Bihar government has reached out to at least 14.5 lakh migrants stranded in Delhi, Mumbai and other parts of the country, amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown, and provided them meals, dry ration and otheressential items, officials here said.The state government has also been doling out a special assistance of Rs 1,000 to distressed migrant workers after verification through the Direct Benefit Transfer system.Two days after a large number of labourers, many of them from the state, had gathered at the Bandra station in Mumbai, heeding rumours that arrangements were being made to send them home, the Bihar government took up the matter with Maharashtra, while also making efforts to establish contact with the anguished workers, Bihar Minister Sanjay Jha told on Thursday."The Bihar chief secretary spoke to his Maharashtra counterpart on the same day and sought help for the stranded migrants there," he said.Principal Secretary, Bihar State Disaster Management Department, Pratyaya Amrit, said a total of 14.56 lakh migrants have been provided relief so far in camps set up for the purpose in Delhi and Mumbai, and states like Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and West Bengal.The state government is supplementing the efforts of the local administration at these places, Amrit said.Applications for special assistance have poured in from at least eight states, including Haryana, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and Delhi.As part of the special assistance programme, launched by the government on April 6, about Rs 8 lakh has been debiteddirectly in the bank accounts of the beneficiaries, he said."In accordance with the instructions of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, we are trying to reach out to every single person who is contacting us over helpline numbers atthe CM's office, the disaster management department or the Bihar Resident Commissioner office in Delhi," Amrit said.Heart-wrenching images of jobless labourers and marginal workers walking back home, after suspension of transport services, were splashed on all TV channels andsocial media platforms, following the imposition of the nationwide lockdown in March end. Some of them were groundedmidway by the administration in other states.The chief minister had appealed to them to stay put wherever they were and promised that his government wouldprovide necessary assistance to them.The April 14 incident in Mumbai further laid bare the woes of the migrants, many of whom have lost daily wage jobs.Amrit, whose department is coordinating relief operations, said 14 camps are functioning in Mumbai itself.He also said that the government-funded relief operations in far-off places, including Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Sikkim, are being carried out withthe help of the Bihar Foundation's chapters and their affiliated organisations.The Bihar Foundation -- a forum for the state's diaspora -- has Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who also head the JD(U), as its patron and his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi as its chairman.Jha, a close associate of Kumar, said the government has taken stock of the situation in the relief camps of Mumbaiand elsewhere, after Tuesday's unfortunate incident in Mumbai.At several places the workers are not receiving help from local authorities, he stated."We, at the party level, along with officials and their personal contacts, are trying to redress their problems," the state water resources minister said. In a scathing attack on opposition RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav for trying to "gain political mileage out of the Mumbaiepisode" Jha, who is also JD(U) general secretary and the party in-charge of Delhi, said, "It does not behove a personto make a political statement, when everybody else was risingabove politics to fight the danger posed by the deadly virus."Tejashwi had criticised the Nitish Kumar governmentover the poor plight of stranded migrants following the April14 incident.The state minister took a swipe at RJD heir apparent,saying "Why is he not with the people of Bihar in this time ofneed instead of registering his presence through tweets fromDelhi?"In the national capital, around 20,000 people areprovided lunch and dinner, maintaining social distancingnorms, in ten camps set up in migrant-dominated localities ofBadarpur, Lakshmi Nagar and Palam among other places.Apart from the state government and the BiharFoundation, many organisations in Mumbai, have come forward tohelp the migrants left in the lurch due to the COVID-19outbreak.Pratibha Nalin Gramin Mahila Vikas Charitable Trust inMumbai has distributed dry ration including rice, pulse salt,sugar, cooking oil, assorted spices, besides potato and onion,to the poor in several parts of Mumbai.Nalin Pandey, who heads the trust, said thebeneficiaries were mostly from Bihar, Andhra Pradesh,Maharashtra, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh."A needy is a needy... 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COVID-19 lockdown: Bihar intensifies outreach programme for stranded migrants in other states

By <keyword id="1248857" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Prashant-Rangnekar">Prashant Rangnekar</keyword> New Delhi, Apr 15 () Their families wait back home, anxious and fearful, but maybe the harvest won't, pushing them deeper into a vicious cycle of debt there will be no getting out of, they say. With three weeks gone and maybe another three to go before they can even contemplate returning to their villages, the days ahead stretch interminably for the thousands of migrant labourers who decided to not take the long walk home but wait for the lockdown to end. And now, with the lockdown extended till May 3 to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the little money they had is mostly gone and so is hope it will end anytime soon. Anil Yadav, a daily wager with the parcel department of the railways who was ready to rush back to his village in Maharajganj in Uttar Pradesh to harvest wheat, is still stunned by Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword>'s announcement on Tuesday extending the pan India shutdown by 19 days. "I have already lost the entire sugarcane crop sown in my one-acre land. It could have brought my family some money. But I can't go back and no one can harvest the crop," said the 28-year-old. "My wife, two children (aged one and three) and old parents have no support. They can't step out even to buy necessary items. They don't have money and now I am stuck here," he said. Sitting under a tree in the complex, dispiritedly eating his 'dal-rice' lunch, Yadav added that his family is staring at a huge financial crisis and plead with him everyday to return home. "But how can I?" he asked. He earned Rs 7,000-8,000 a month in his job but the money and the job have both gone. With all of India under lockdown, there are no train or inter-state bus services. Yadav is one of the 330 people, including the homeless and migrants, staying at the <keyword id="187727" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Yamuna-Sports-Complex">Yamuna Sports Complex</keyword> camp that has been turned into a shelter home by the Delhi government. On April 1, a week after the first phase of the lockdown came into effect, Yadav was one of the many thousands who went to the <keyword id="75794" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Anand-Vihar">Anand Vihar</keyword> Interstate Bus Terminal hoping to manage a seat. Instead, he was packed into a bus by police and sent to the Yamuna Sports Complex. Asha Devi, a mother of four, tries hard to fight back her tears as she talks about her two sons, one 14 and the other only six, alone at their village in Uttar Pradesh's <keyword id="514433" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Banda-district">Banda district</keyword>. "My two sons are all alone at home. The older one works as a daily wage labourer and looks after his younger brother. I am so scared," the 36-year-old said. Sitting next to her is a group of 13 daily labourers, including her husband and her extended family members, from Uttar Pradesh's Banda district. The group left their homes early last month to work in a brick kiln in rural Ghaziabad After the lockdown, which came into effect after Modi's announcement on March 24, the contractor who hired them assured them of rations but suddenly disappeared leaving them with no money or food. With no option left, the group walked miles to reach Anand Vihar, only to be herded by the police to the Yamuna Sports Complex. She was forced to step out of the village with her 11-year-old daughter who helped her in the brick kiln. The eldest, also a girl, is married. "I want to go back home. If we have to die, we will do that together," she said. She, like the others, was pinning her hopes on the lockdown ending on Wednesday. Yadav and Asha Devi echo the woes of tens of thousands of stranded migrant workers across the country, including in Mumbai where large crowds came out in Bandra on Tuesday clamouring to return to their villages. Many complain there is no one to harvest their standing crop. Some said their families are being pushed to the brink with no money. With their jobs gone, the crops could help them sustain themselves. However, losing the crop would mean certain starvation. Gopesh Kumar, who works as a daily wager in farms in Haryana for Rs 400 a day, said he started working in a farm in Rohtak from March 15. When the lockdown began, the contractor he was working for suddenly asked him to go back. Kumar, who belongs to Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh and is spending his days like the others at the Yamuna Sports Complex shelter, said time is running out. "I can't earn till the lockdown ends. My family does not have money back home. Our entire standing crop of wheat has to be harvested. Who will do that?" he said. "There would have been some relief if the lockdown was lifted. At least, I could have gone back home. But with the extension, I have to wait here for another two weeks," he said, not quite sure of his age. Raju Kushwaha, 38, from Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, has the same question. "How will my family, including three sons, survive if we can't harvest the crop. And if I am not there, who will do it?" The Delhi government is feeding an estimated 7,00,000 people a day in its various camps. These include migrant labourers, beggars and other homeless people. 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