The 15th ‘Shramik Express’ train carrying 1200 passengers today chugged off from the city station to Sultanpur (Uttar Pradesh) as the state government led by Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh spending Rs 5.76 lakh from the state exchequer.The humanitarian gesture of the Chief Minister was aimed at ensuring free travel for migrants stuck in Punjab due to the lockdown/ curfew. This was the 15th train from Jalandhar as earlier trains to Jalandhar as earlier trains to Daltongunj, Gazipur and Banaras, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Ayodhya, Azamgarh, Darbhanga, Bahraich, Sultanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Akbarpur, Azamgarh, Kathiyar and Faizabad have also moved from the city. The train today left for its destination under the supervision of the Deputy Commissioner of Police Mr. Balkar Singh.Earlier, the migrants who were scheduled to board the train were transported free of cost from transit points at Balle Balle farms and Khalsa Senior Secondary School via buses of the Punjab roadways to the city Railway station. The district administration led by Deputy Commissioner Jalandhar Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma and Commissioner of Police Mr. Gurpreet Singh Bhullar has already made elaborate arrangements for the smooth boarding of the migrants for the train. At the Railway station they were boarded into the train while maintaining social distance and a team of the Health department was specially deployed to ensure the medical screening of every passenger boarding the train.The Deputy Commissioner of Police who was specially present on the occasion said that the state government has incurred an expenditure worth Rs 5.76 lakh to facilitate the migrants. He said that only those migrants who have registered them on government portal were being facilitated for the movement towards their respective destinations.