Drive to bring back migrant workers to end in 2 to 3 days: UP official

Lucknow: The campaign to bring back stranded migrant workers will end in two to three days as most people have returned to Uttar Pradesh with very few left outside the state, an official said on Thursday.

The official said other states have informed them that they have no or very few people left who needed to be sent back.

"The entire campaign of bringing back migrants through trains and buses will end in next two to three days. Till now, 26 to 27 lakh migrants have returned,” Additional Chief Secretary (Home and Information) Awanish Kumar Awasthi told reporters here.


He said states like Gujarat, Delhi, Punjab, Telengana, Karnatanka, Rajasthan, and Haryana have told them that they have no or very few persons left to be sent back to UP.

Till now, 1,411 trains have arrived in the state and in the next a few days, their number will rise to 1,551, he said, adding now only trains from Maharashtra and some southern states are coming to UP.

The maximum 490 trains have arrived from Gujarat followed by 327 from Maharashtra, 228 from Punjab, 94 from Delhi, 53 from Karnataka and 33 from Rajasthan.