The Gurugram district administration on Wednesday sent about 3,000 labourers of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar back to their native States via two labour special trains which were dispatched from Gurugram railway station.
Of these, one train left for Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh at 10:30 am and the second train left for Madhubani in Bihar at 12:30 pm.
“Thermal scanning of all those workers and their families before boarding the train ensured that none of them was corona infected,” said Amit Khatri, deputy commissioner Gurugram.
An administration official said the workers who were going to Tikamgarh were accumulated at Government College, Sector-14, Gurugram, from where they were taken to Gurugram railway station via buses.
The first labour special train from Gurugram railway station was dispatched to Tikamgarh in which about 1,400 labourers left for their homes.
Similarly, a second labour special train from Gurugram railway station left for Madhubani in Bihar, with around 1,600 workers going to their villages. The train had 20 bogies and each bogie had a capacity of 80 seats.
“All the workers who went to Madhubani had their registration done. They were accumulated at Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Sector 38. Only those workers have been sent who had no symptoms of corona infection,” Khatri said.
A 40-year-old migrant worker Rambihari from Jhansi, who was going to Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh said he used to work in Gurugram and lived with his family in Dundahera.
He said that due to the lockdown, he made up his mind to go to his state and as soon as the conditions are good, he and his family will come back here.
Expressing similar views, another worker Narendra Rajput (21) a resident of Chhatarpur said he used to work in a shop in the village Khandsa and would come back here after the things will be normal.
Apart from this, five more Covid-19 cases have been detected in different areas of the millennium city on Wednesday, taking the tally to 166. Of this, 99 are active cases and 67 have been cured and discharged from hospitals.