1.61L migrants sent back; city cops say more trains are needed

The Mumbai Police, till Monday, sent 1,61,261 stranded people, most of them migrant labourers, back to their home states, while over 3 lakh are still on the waiting list. Pranaya Ashok, DCP (operations) and Mumbai Police spokesperson confirmed the updated figures.

Mumbai Police fears the exercise of sending back stranded people may take more than a month if the number of trains is not increased significantly soon. “We need over a thousand people in one group for one train, otherwise, we have to make them wait till we reach that figure,” said a senior police officer.

One of the deputy commissioners of Mumbai, who acts as a nodal officer, said, “The response from Uttar Pradesh has been good so far but West Bengal (WB) needs to provide more trains. The WB government has given just eight trains to Mumbai when more than double are needed.”

Mumbai Police has reported 651 cases so far, of which eight succumbed to the virus. A total of 1,273 have tested positive for Covid-19 in Maharashtra Police, of

which 11 personnel have died.

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