PLEA IN SC SEEKS FREE TRAVEL FOR MIGRANT WORKERS

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday was told that stranded migrant workers are being charged very high train fares for their journey to native places and railways, and states governments should not charge them. The petitioners Jagdeep S Chhokar, former director in-charge of IIM, Ahmedabad, and lawyer Gaurav Jain, filed an affidavit in this regard. “It must be made clear that the Railways and the states would not be charging the migrant workers,” the plea said.