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| No Shramik trains for migrant labourers stranded in Jammu | | Reach Lakhanpur in search of road service | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 14: Despite Shramik trains chugging to ferry stranded labourers, hundreds of migrant workers continue to converge at Lakhanpur here in search of some road transport service.
Some of the migrant labourers stranded at Lakhanpur while talking to Early Times said, “Indifferent attitude of administrations in different districts of Jammu province has forced us to look for some road service. No train service has been made available for us.”
“We were working in some private shops, which have been closed for the last over 50 days now. Twice or thrice, eatables were provided by the administration and sometimes by the volunteers but apart from eatables, there are many other requirements for which we need money, which we don’t have. The shopkeepers have been refusing to sell anything on credit”, a group of labourers said, adding that if they don’t reach their native villages they will die of starvation.
The district administration had taken our Aadhar numbers for registration to ferry us back to native villages but after lapse of many days, the administration has not responded. “We are illiterate people and whenever we visit the offices to know about the trains, we are sent back,” the labourers said, adding that they have been reaching Lakhanpur with a hope that some truck driver or bus operators would take them on nominal fare.
The labourers informed that few days ago some of their people had also reached Lakhanpur and the administration had allowed buses to ferry them.
“Those buses had brought residents of J&K from other States and had to return to their home States. On the instructions of district administration Kathua as well as Police administration, the bus operators agreed to ferry labourers in lieu of some fare”, they said, adding that after those workers reached their homes, they informed other stranded labourers in various districts to reach Lakhanpur to board some truck or bus.
Sources at Lakhanpur said that around over seven hundred migrant labourers are stranded at Lakhanpur. “Few days back, a large group of labourers was sent back by the J&K police at Lakhanpur for their registration so that they could be send back to their native places with proper documentation”, an official said, adding that despite persuasion by Police as well as administration migrant labourers continue to converge at Lakhanpur. |
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