Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamatha Benerjee said that the migrant workers who returned to West Bengal from five states will be required to go into mandatory institutional quarantine for 14 days.

The migrant workers from Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh returned to West Bengal are to go for institutional quarantine, she said on Wednesday. She also accused the railway ministry of rolling out Shramik trains and its whim and sort Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to stem the unplanned influx.

She also said that there is information that 36 trains were coming from Mumbai; a dozen more trains have been schedule. How can I accommodate 48 trains at a time? I got in touch with the Maharashtra government and was told that they themselves came to know about it at 02:00pm, she said. She also told to the chief secretary Rajiv Sinha to setup a task force each led by the districts magistrates to monitor the inflow of migrant workers returning by train to their areas.

Those coming home from states other than listed five will be allowed home quarantine. Mamatha questioned the railways that had not sent trains at its whim. Will you take responsibility with the deceased spread across Bengal? I don’t have the health infrastructure to accept so many migrants at a time, she said. You want Bengal to turn into a Maharashtra, Delhi or a Gujarat, she questioned. She also charged the railway ministry with flouting social distancing norms while migrant workers home.