As many as11 migrant labourer trudging by foot to their homes in Kolkata of West Bengal in the absence of buses and trains due to the lockdown were rescued by the Ganjam district administration on Monday.
All of them were later sent to an isolation centre.
The migrant workers were engaged at a Government guesthouse in the Gopalpur area. Following the lockdown, they were residing there. However, the middleman for whom they were working for stopped providing food to them, following which they decided to return to their native place.
But midway, officials stopped them at a place under the Chammakhandi police station on NH-16.