Three persons of a family comprising two brothers and child covered a distance of 740 km on two bicycles after they failed to get any public transport to reach their native Bedari village under Patkura police limits from AP where they were working as migrant labourers.
It took them three days to reach at their native village from Rambilli under Anakapalle of Andhra Pradesh. The trio was identified as Kishore Behera(50),his 23-year-old son Rakesh Behera and his 40-year-old younger brother Ramesh Behera.
According to Kishore, they were engaged in a project work of L&T company for setting up a Naval base at Ramabilli in Andhra Pradesh. The construction work was stopped at the site due to the national lockdown and the L&T company did not provide them wage for 21 days. They were forced to remain stranded in their rented house.
However, when they had exhausted their savings in buying grocery items ,vegetables and essential needs, all hell broke loose. As a result, they decided to return to their native village.
“We set out for our village on two bicycles on April 15 evening at about 4 pm by taking a torch, drinking water , biscuits and flattened rice. We took rests for some minutes on the way. We faced police checking in several places on the way and finally we reached on the wee hours of April 19 at our village," narrated Ramesh.
After reaching home, the trio stayed in home quarantine and asked the family members to keep social distancing from them for 14 days .
Acting o information about the arrival of the trio, a health team ,including local ASHA and Anganwadi worker, led by Dr Himanshu Bhushan Sarangi and Dr Bishnu Charan Pradhan rushed to Bedari village on Sunday and advised them to keep social distancing from each other along with obeying the home quarantine protocols.
A doctor of Patkura CHC also contacted with the district health department to collect the swab samples of the three returnees for Coronavirus test.