nDeputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday wrote to the Ministry of Railways to provide 262 trains in the next four days to send migrants back to their hometowns.
According to the Delhi Government’ data , most of the migrants registering are residents of Bihar (1,95,746) and Uttar Pradesh (1,84,997).
“Today, around 37,500 migrants were sent back to Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and other states,” said Sisodia.
Around 4 lakh people have registered on the Delhi government's e-portal to go back to their native states from Delhi. Around 25 trains left from Delhi for different states today to carry 37500 migrants back to their hometowns, with 11 trains each being sent to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
An order had been issued by the Delhi government directing for publicizing the web link https://epass.jantasamavad.org among stranded migrants. More than four lakh people have registered at the Delhi government portal for going back home, and transportation has been arranged for around 65,000 migrants until now.
Earlier , Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had also requested the center to increase the number of trains from Delhi to send maximum migrants back to their native states.
Registrations have been received from migrants belonging to different across the country, with around 14836 people registering for Darbhanga in Bihar, 14355 migrants registering for Madhubani, 11156 registering for Sitamarhi, 11707 migrants registering for Muzaffarpur and 10247 migrants registering for Katihar.
Similarly, 14914 migrants have registered on the Delhi government portal to go back to Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, 13279 migrants have registered for Gorakhpur, 11554 migrants have registered for Jaunpur, 8103 migrants have registered for Ambedkarnagar and 7770 migrants have registered for Basti.