The Bengal government announced on Sunday evening that 1,200 migrants from the state, who had been stranded in Rajasthan amid the coronavirus lockdown, would be returning on Tuesday via a special “shramik (worker)” train run by the Indian Railways.
Bengal’s Information and Cultural Affairs (I&CA) department confirmed this with a tweet at 7.08 pm, which said: “The government of West Bengal is bringing back more than a thousand stranded migrant labourers of Bengal from Rajasthan by a special train”.
In a second, separate tweet, the government said efforts were ongoing to bring back tourists and pilgrims from Kerala who had also been stranded by the nationwide clampdown on movement, which includes suspension of all public transport.
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