Chandigarh, May 20 - Haryana Government led by Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Lal is committed to send willing migrant labourers to their home states.

Giving detail information about this, ADGP CID, Mr. Anil Kumar Rao said that after the announcement made by Chief Minister,Mr. Manohar Lal to send stranded migrant laborers and agricultural laborers willing to return to their home states free of cost by the Haryana Government, more than 2,06,763 migrant labourers have been sent by various Special Shramik Trains and buses to their home states at the expenditure of the Haryana Government.

On May 19, 2020, 13,279 migrant labourers were sent to Uttar Pradesh and other states by 3 trains and 254 buses. Till date, migrant labourers have been sent to various states through more than 3276 buses, out of which 781 buses have been sent to Ghaziabad and Uttar Pradesh. Similarly till date a total of 49 Special Shramik Trains carrying migrant labourers have been sent to Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, out of which 35 trains have been sent to Bihar and 14 trains to Madhya Pradesh.

The entire expenditure of trains and buses being run to send migrant labourers to their home states is being borne by the Haryana Government. Free of cost arrangements are being made by the State Government to keep these migrant labourers in relief centres and to bring them to railway stations and bus stands.

So far 1,08,728 migrant labourers have been sent to Uttar Pradesh while 47,530 migrant labourers have been sent to Bihar from Haryana. Similarly, 14,940 migrant labourers have been sent to Uttarakhand, while 23,293 migrant labourers have been sent to Madhya Pradesh.

Apart from this, 1,231 migrant labourers were sent to Jammu and Kashmir, 950 migrant labourers to Rajasthan, 336 migrant labourers to Maharashtra, 223 migrant labourers to Punjab, 81 migrant labourers to Himachal Pradesh, 204 migrant labourers to Gujarat, 174 migrant labourers to Delhi, 63 migrant labourers to Assam, 40 migrant labourers to Tamil Nadu, 57 migrant labourers to West Bengal and 41 migrant laborers to Andhra Pradesh.

After issuing passes by the concerned District Administration, 8,500 migrant labourers have been sent to their home states. About 11,000 Haryana residents stranded in other states have been brought back homes. The process of sending and bringing back stranded migrant labourers is going on.