In Gujarat, the State Government shifted around 5,000 stranded migrant workers to their native states of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh till today. AIR correspondent reports that the government deployed state transport buses to ferry the migrant workers who were stranded in the state due to lockdown.
He said, all labourers were screened before and social distancing was also maintained in the buses. Mr Verma said, the government is also planning to send stranded workers from Maharashtra. Earlier, Surat District Collector had allowed a group of 150 migrant workers to travel to Odisha by private bus. Such permission was also given to a group of 36 migrant workers to travel to Siddharthpur in Uttar Pradesh.