Large numbers of migrant labourers stranded in various parts due to the nationwide lockdown are transiting through Odisha by foot to reach their home States in West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar.
To assist these migrants reach their respective State orders, as a part of Odisha Government initiative, the Odisha police are using buses from important border check-points like Sohela, Girisola and Kerada to carry the migrants to the border points.
On Wednesday evening, six buses carrying more than 250 migrant labours, who were walking through the State dropped them on the State borders. Two buses from Sohela dropped migrants of Jharkhand at Biramitrapur and migrants of West Bengal in Jamsola in Mayurbhanj.
Two buses from Kerada, Rayagada dropped migrants of Chhattisgarh at border points in Nabarangapur and Nuapada, where as two buses from Girisola in Brahampur dropped migrants of West Bengal at Jamsola in, Mayurbhanj.