Second special train from Delhi to leave for Muzaffarpur on Friday with 1200 migrants
The second migrant special train from Delhi will leave for Bihar's Muzaffarpur on Friday, officials said, hours after the first Shramik Special from the New Delhi Railway Station left for Madhya Pradesh with around 1,200 workers.
The train to Muzaffarpur is expected to leave Friday evening, with 1,200 passengers who were stranded in the national capital due to the COVID-19 lockdown, officials said.
The Delhi government is also in talks with Uttar Pradesh to run special trains for migrant workers from the state who wish to return, they added.
The special train for Madhya Pradesh left at 8 pm on Thursday.
The official said that migrant workers who left for Madhya Pradesh were screened by authorities.
Around 10,000 migrant workers are staying in government-run shelters in the national capital.
Recently, the government had appointed Principal Secretary (Social Welfare) P K Gupta as the nodal officer to facilitate the movement of migrant workers to their native states.
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