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Vijayawada: Plight of migrant workers continues unabated
Thousands of those stuck in the State are desperate to return to their home States
Vijayawada: The plight of stranded migrant workers belonging to various states has continued unabated despite easing of lockdown restrictions. They are still forced to undergo privations and hardships to return to their places of origin.
These migrant workers used to work in granite quarries, construction sector, farm lands, small scale industries.
A group of migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh visited the Vijayawada Railway station on Tuesday with a hope of boarding a train to their home State. They had to trek from one place to another as there was public or privation transport due to lockdown. They face communication problem because they know only Hindi.
Rajendra Yadav, a migrant worker from Allahabad, said they were clueless as to how to get information on boarding the train to go back to their home State. "We cannot walk 2,000 km on foot to reach UP," said Saleem, one of the migrant workers stranded in Vijayawada. Like Rajendra and Saleem, a large number of migrant workers are desperately trying to get information when a train will leave for their home State. Some of them are trying to return to their native places by trucks. The truck drivers carrying agriculture produce and other essential commodities are helping the migrant workers to reach their native places. So far, thousands of migrant workers have left for their native places by trucks.
Migrant workers from Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal are getting into trucks near Ramavarappadu, Benz Circle, Varadhi and other places in Vijayawada on Chennai-Kolkata highway. Many of them are walking along highways till they catch a truck. Volunteers are distributing food, drinking water bottles, fruits and other refreshments to them on the highways. The district administration arranged some makeshift centres to serve food and convince them to board the buses or trains to go back to their native places. The APSRTC is operating buses to North Coastal districts and the buses are originating from Ramavappadu junction.
On the other hand, more than 10,000 migrant workers have boarded special trains from various parts in the State in recent days to reach their native places in Madhya Pradesh.
