32nd ‘Shramik Express’ With 1200 Migrants Onboard Chugs For Unnao From Jalandhar

State Government Bears Expenditure Worth Rs 5.46lakh For Free Travel To Migrants

5 Dariya News

Jalandhar 14-May-2020

Owing to the strenuous efforts of the state government led by the Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh the 32nd ‘Shramik Express’ train with 1200 migrants onboard chugged off from Jalandhar city station to Unnao in Uttar Pradesh.The Punjab government was bearing the entire expenses of the train which was around Rs 5.46 lakh. The state government has so far spent Rs. 2.02 crore on running of these trains from the city to the various states including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and others. Apart from it state government was also providing refreshment for the migrants who were moving to their native state in the trains. Pertinently, the Captain Amarinder Singh led Punjab Government has sanctioned Rs 35 crore, in the first phase, towards its share of the migrants’ cost of transportation by the Indian Railways. The Jalandhar administration has received the amount from the state government which was being paid to the Railways directly for providing tickets to the registered passengers thereby enabling them to go to their native states free of cost. Likewise, a team of the Health department was screening every migrant who was coming to the station for boarding the train. The district administration had made adequate arrangements for maintaining social distancing amongst the passengers before boarding the train. Meanwhile, today the train chugged from city under direct supervision of Deputy Commissioner of Police Mr Balkar Singh.