16 TRAINS TO TAKE MIGRANTS STUCK IN CITY BACK HOME

CHANDIGARH: Sixteen trains will be taking migrant persons to their home states from Chandigarh with one train scheduled to leave the city every day for the next couple of weeks.

The first train left the city for Gonda district in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday at full capacity with a total of 1,188 passengers. The second departed the city for Kishanganj district in Bihar on Monday.

UT adviser Manoj Kumar Parida, on Monday, said as soon as the central government decided to allow movement of stranded persons, the UT administration arranged the trains to take migrants stuck in the city to their native places in UP, Bihar and Manipur.

The administration has also requested for trains to Kishanganj, Bhagalpur, Purnea, Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Saharsa, and Barauni.

Punjab governor and UT administrator VP Singh Badnore expressed happiness that the passengers were provided adequate food and water, and all expenses, including the cost of rail tickets, were borne by the administration.