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Talk to CMs not allowing migrants to come back home: Sharad Pawar tells PM Modi

State Transport buses will be used for the transportation of workers returning to their homes, Uddhav Thackeray informed Pawar over the phone while Piyush Goyal assured him of making arrangements for the journey of migrants by trains.

Talk to CMs not allowing migrants to come back home: Sharad Pawar tells PM Modi
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Amid the ongoing migrant crisis, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday informed that Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has assured him that the travel arrangement has been made for the migrant workers who want to go to their native states. 

State Transport buses will be used for the transportation of workers returning to their homes, Uddhav Thackeray informed Pawar while Piyush Goyal assured him of making arrangements for the journey of migrants by trains. 

“The CM of Maharashtra has assured me of arrangements for the transportation of these workers wanting to go back to their home states. State Transport buses will be used for their travel. The Union Railway Minister has also assured of arrangements of travel by trains for the same (sic),” the NCP supremo tweeted after speaking to the Maharastra CM and Union Railway Minister over the phone regarding the problems being faced by the migrant workers and labourers. 

Demanding his intervention, Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Sharad Pawar urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to talk to Chief Ministers of the respective state who were not willing to take back migrant workers and labourers stranded in the state due to the lockdown. 

Meanwhile, Maharashtra Revenue Minister and state Congress President Balasaheb Thorat sought directions to be issued by the centre as the majority of the states are not accepting their migrants back. The random decision made by several states regarding receiving their migrants has worsened the situation, he added.

Hitting at the state governments for not accepting their migrants back, Balasaheb Thorat informed that nearly 10 lakh migrant workers and labourers in Maharashtra who want to return to their native homes in states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Gujarat, Karnataka, Odisha and Tamil Nadu. 

Earlier, Odisha and Bihar had given blanket approval to the Maharashtra government to accept their migrants back. However, both the states have reversed their policies regarding the same. 

The Nitish Kumar government changed its stance of taking its migrants back and said that it will now decide on a case-to-case basis while Odisha wants to take back its migrants who have been tested negative for the COVID-19. 

On May 5, the West Bengal government refused to accept them as the state government here was waiting for the approval from West Bengal government to send nearly 24,000 migrant workers on two special trains from Thane to Shalimar station in Howrah

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