Sharad Pawar thanks Piyush Goyal for offering trains to ferry Maharashtra migrants.(FILE)
Mumbai: NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday thanked Railway Minister Piyush Goyal for acceding to the request for offering trains to move stranded migrant staff to their native states from Maharashtra.
Mr Pawar had on May 9 raised the problem of migrant staff with Mr Goyal, who the NCP chief had then mentioned, assured of arranging trains for labourers to return to their respective house states amid the coronavirus-enforced lockdown.
“Thank you Union Railway Minister Shri @PiyushGoyal ji and @RailMinIndia for acceding to our requests for offering trains to move the migrants from completely different components of Maharashtra to their house states safely, Mr Pawar tweeted on Tuesday.
Lakhs of migrant staff have returned to their house states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh, amongst others, from Maharashtra until now.
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh had final Sunday mentioned that West Bengal and Bihar governments should not issuing required clearances to run trains at a quantity desired by the state authorities, saying they’re “very slow” in responding.
He had additionally mentioned a complete of 20 lakh migrants, most of them from Bihar and West Bengal, have registered themselves with the Maharashtra authorities thus far for travelling again to their native states in particular trains.
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