West Bengal govt will run 105 additional special trains to bring migrants back home: Mamata Banerjee
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West Bengal govt will run 105 additional special trains to bring migrants back home: Mamata Banerjee

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday mentioned that her authorities will run 105 extra particular trains to carry migrants employees from the state stranded in different components of the nation again dwelling.

“Towards our dedication to serving to all our folks caught in several components of the nation and who wish to return again to Bengal, I’m happy to announce that we now have organized 105 extra particular trains. Over the approaching days, these particular trains will embark from completely different states for varied locations throughout Bengal bringing our folks again dwelling,’’’the Chief Minister mentioned in a tweet.

She added that the “actual particulars of every of those trains shall be accessible at: https://wb.gov.in/pdf/Train_Schedule.pdf.’’

The tweet from the Trinamool Congress chief got here a day after Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal accused West Bengal authorities of not permitting trains to ferry migrants desirous to return to the State from different corners of the nation.

Goyal mentioned that to date, solely seven trains have departed for West Bengal, including that preparations have been made to make sure they return safely to their native locations. 

The Railway Minister mentioned that rail transport has not picked up even after Union Home Minister Amit Shah wrote to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee final week on the topic. He even pleaded the States to make sure the graceful run of trains and never cease migrants from returning dwelling. 

“These are your people, why are you not allowing them to return? Please allow them to come, meet their families and if they wish to go back, allow them I’m confident that the economy will pick up, they will find jobs. Please don’t politicize the issue and work unitedly.”

It could also be recalled {that a} disagreement had erupted between the centre and the state authorities after Home Minister Amit Shah alleged Mamata Banerjee regime was not cooperating over migrant employees’ situation.

In his letter to Mamata, the Union Home Minister acknowledged that the West Bengal authorities will not be permitting trains carrying migrant employees to achieve the state, which can additional create hardship for the labourers.

In his letter, Shah mentioned not permitting trains to achieve West Bengal is “injustice” to the migrant employees from the state.

Referring to the ‘Shramik Special’ trains being run by the central authorities to facilitate the transportation of migrant employees from completely different components of the nation to numerous locations, Shah mentioned that the Centre has facilitated greater than two lakh migrants employees to achieve dwelling.

The Home Minister mentioned migrant employees from West Bengal are additionally keen to achieve dwelling and the central authorities can also be facilitating the prepare companies.

“But we are not getting expected support from the West Bengal. The state government of West Bengal is not allowing the trains reaching to West Bengal. This is injustice with West Bengal migrant labourers. This will create further hardship for them,” Shah wrote in his letter to the Trinamool Congress chief.

The Centre and the Bengal authorities have clashed steadily amid the coronavirus outbreak within the nation, with an IMCT (inter-ministerial central staff), which visited the state to overview its dealing with of the disaster, this week accusing Banerjee’s administration of taking an “antagonistic view”. 

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