New Delhi: The migrant workers of all states in the country wanted to go their homes due to nationwide lock down reached crowded into bus terminals around the national capital trying desperately to return to hometowns and villages across the border in Uttar Pradesh. UP Government arranged 1000 buses and Delhi Chief Kejriwal also arranged 200 DTC buses to the migrant workers who are crowded to go home towns at bus terminals on Saturday.

Amid the chaos, fear and uncertainty spreading across the country because of the Covid-19 outbreak, a distressing narrative emerged from Delhi on Saturday, when thousands of migrant workers, left without jobs, shelter or money after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 21-day nationwide lockdown. The centre’s “total lockdown”, meant to halt the spread of a highly infectious novel Covid- 19that transmits rapidly in crowded spaces, had suspended all interstate bus and railway services, leaving migrants and their young families no option but to walk hundreds of Kms foot in searing heat.

As harrowing stories of men, women and infants undertaking the punishing trek emerged over the past few days, the Uttar Pradesh and Delhi governments responded Saturday by arranging buses to ferry the people home; the UP government said it had organised 1,000 buses and Delhi Chief Minister Aravind Kejriwal said 200 DTC buses would also be pressed into service.