Surprise Me!

Thousands of stranded migrant workers in India queue outside bus station waiting to go back to their hometowns

2020-03-31 39 Dailymotion

Thousands of migrant workers were seen waiting in queues at a bus station hoping to find their way back home because of the coronavirus outbreak in northern India.<br /><br />The incident took place at Jaipur Sindhi bus stand, Jaipur, Rajasthan, on March 28.<br /><br />The video shows a large number of daily wage labourers from Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and surrounding areas, gathered outside the Sindhi Camp bus stand.<br /><br />The Central government had urged state governments to take immediate steps to help the migrants stranded across several states amid the 21-day-long nationwide lockdown.<br /><br />Following this, the government arranged thousands of buses to ferry over 35000 migrant labourers to their respective hometown. <br /><br />Some were lucky as they got the chance to go back to their hometown while others scrambled for buses.<br /> <br />Initially, things started on a regulatory note as the migrant workers were made to sit on the road while maintaining proper distance, but later things got chaotic when the exodus of workers kept increasing.<br /><br />Amid the lockdown, various bus stands across the nation witnessed such activity.

Buy Now on CodeCanyon