Migrant workers still walking on roads

GHAZIABAD/NOIDA: A day after sixteen tired migrant workers were tragically killed at railway track in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, several migrant workers and labourers were seen walking down to their home town at highways and roads in Ghaziabad as well as Gautam Buddh Nagar districts.

On Saturday morning around 9 am, a group of 32 workers sat at the edges of the boundary wall of the Amrapali village society in Indirapuram. Security guards of the society asked them to vacate the place but workers told guards that they have got tired after walking for miles and are going to their hometown in different districts in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

However, some residents and AOA saw the workers allowed them entry inside the society. They provided them food after sanitisizing them and also allowed them to take rest for a few hours.

An AOA member of the society said that the workers were coming from Haryana and Punjab, and they didn’t eat anything for last two days. “We provided them a space to bath and made arrangements in the common area of the society so they can rest. Even, residents of the society were also came from their home with food and snacks,” he added.

Later cops reached the spot and shifted them to shelter homes. Meanwhile, Ghaziabad police have also deployed cops at the railway tracks across the district to stop migrant workers walking at railway track.

Kalanidhi Naithani, SSP of Ghaziabad said that they have deployed over 500 cops at the railway track across district and asked the railway employees to not allow any person near the tracks.

Similarly in Gautam Buddh Nagar, a group of migrant workers were spotted walking down to their home town with bags over their shoulder and head near the Dadri railway track. However, police immediately reached the spot and took them to shelter home