Migrants to be back in 2-3 days

Lucknow: The campaign to bring back stranded migrant workers will end in two to three days as most people have returned to Uttar Pradesh with very few left outside the state, an official said on Thursday.

The official said other states have informed them that they have no or very few people left who needed to be sent back. "The entire campaign of bringing back migrants through trains and buses will end in next two to three days.

Till now, 26 to 27 lakh migrants have returned," Additional Chief Secretary (Home and Information) Awanish Kumar Awasthi told reporters in Lucknow.