HARYANA ROADWAYS FERRY WORKERS TO UP

ROHTAK: Nearly 930 migrant workers, including 700 from Jhajjar and about 230 from Jind, left for Uttar Pradesh in 30 Haryana Roadways buses on Saturday.

Around 700 workers from Jhajjar were sent to Shamli cluster in Uttar Pradesh in 30 buses, while 126 migrant labourers left for Shamli from Jind in four buses. However, 105 workers departed for Saharnpur from Jind in three buses.

Jhajjar deputy commissioner Jitender Kumar said that as many as 700 migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh’s fourteen districts had left for their native places.

The migrant workers boarded the buses after undergoing a medical check-up at shelter homes.

Meanwhile, after a Shramik Special train from Bhiwani was cancelled twice, as many as 1,198 migrant labourers (486 from Bhiwani and 712 from Dadri) finally left for Bihar from Bhiwani in a special train at 11.30am on Saturday.

‘RETURNING HOME WITHOUT MONEY’

KARNAL: From Karnal, as many as 342 migrant labourers for their homes in 11 Haryana Roadways buses on Saturday and expressed resentment over going back with empty pockets

Most of them alleged that the factory owners that they worked for had not paid their salaries.

A middle-aged labourer who worked in a hosiery manufacturing unit in Ludhiana said, “The owner of my factory refused to pay my salary and we were forced to leave without any money and I reached Karnal on foot”.

THOSE CROSSING BORDER TO BE KEPT AT SHELTER HOMES

AMBALA: A day after several migrant labourers at the Ambala-patiala (Shambhu) border, were sent back by Haryana Police only to be refused entry by Punjab Police, Haryana home minister Anil Vij asked the administration to give them refuge at temporary shelter homes set up in Ambala.