Piyush Goyal mentioned Railways was able to ship as many trains as required to states (Representational)
New Delhi: The political slugfest over Shramik Special trains refuses to die down between Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal over the problem on Sunday, with the Shiv Sena chief accusing the Railways of not offering sufficient trains to the state regardless of demand.
In an deal with to the state on Sunday, Mr Thackeray mentioned that whereas he had demanded 80 migrant particular trains per day for the state to ferry migrants dwelling, it was getting solely 40.
Mr Goyal took a dig on the Maharashtra CM by means of a tweet, saying the Railways was able to ship as many trains as required to states, offered they don’t “return empty”.
I hope that these trains won’t have to depart empty after arriving on the station prefer it has occurred earlier. I wish to guarantee you that the trains you want might be out there,” tweeted Mr Goyal, referring to earlier events when migrants didn’t board particular trains.
Mr Thackeray in his deal with additionally mentioned that the state had paid Rs 85 crore up to now in the direction of these trains.
Mr Goyal tweeted, We are prepared to supply 125 Shramik Special trains to Maharashtra. Since you’ve mentioned that you’ve got a listing prepared that’s the reason I’m requesting you to please present all data like from the place the practice will run, the checklist of passengers in keeping with the trains, their medical certificates and the place the practice is to go, to the General Manager of Central Railway inside the subsequent hour, in order that we will plan the time of trains,”.
The union minister adopted this up with one other tweet, “Sadly, it has been 1.5 hours but Maharashtra Govt. has been unable to give required information about tomorrow’s planned 125 trains to GM of Central Railway. Planning takes time & we do not want train to stand empty at the stations, so it’s impossible to plan without full details.”
“I hope that the Government of Maharashtra will fully cooperate in the efforts made for the benefit of migrant labourers,” he mentioned.
Earlier, Shramik Special trains turned a bone of rivalry between the Centre and states like West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan with the minister mentioning that these governments have been permitting fewer migrant trains to reach. The state CMs too got here out all weapons blazing and denied the allegations on Twitter.
So far, 513 trains have terminated in Maharashtra, in keeping with information offered by Railways.
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