Day 463

    Welcome to Lockdown 3.0. As all of you are aware that lockdown 3.0 has commencenced from today till 17 May 2020. I hope that the patience level hasn’t gone down. Actually, this is the thing which is required at this very moment. All of us are locked in our homes, except for those who are providing essential services, so it’s a common phenomenon that the patience level is going to be down. But this is the real test for our patience. No, I’m not talking like a government official. I’m just talking as an ordinary citizen.

    Actually, few days back, I saw a video of Bihari migrant labours who are stuck in Tamil Nadu due to lockdown. They were cursing the Bihar government for not providing any means of transportation for their home coming. I read a news article which said that few labours were in the huge concrete mixer and they were trying to go to their native places but unfortunately all of them died. This had happened in Gujarat. Actually, government is formulating some plan for the transportation of migrant labours, students and tourists who had stuck in different places to their native places. Now the central government and Indian government has initiated a scheme where the migrant labours will be sent to their native states by railway. Only sleeper coaches are allowed in which instead of 72 passengers only 55 passengers are allowed in a coach.

    But unfortunately, opposition parties like Congress and Rashtriya Janta Dal are questioning the scheme of the government. Actually, the central government has announced that no fare will be collected from the labours but Congress party is saying that government is making labours fool. Railway has clarified that no tickets are being sold at any station. An advisory has been issued by the Railway that the state governments should tell the exact number of labours migrated from their states and wish to comeback. Accordingly the Railway will issue the tickets to those labours. The money will be collected by the state government. Bihar Chief Minister has said that the state government will give another one thousand to the labours coming back to the state. They have to be stay in the quarantine centres for 21 days so that the corona virus shouldn’t spread further in the state.

    Madhya Pradesh government has already bear the entire expense of the migrant labours coming back to the state. Now Congress party is launching attack on the railway and central government that both are collecting the fare from the labours. If media reports are to be considered true then there was chaos at the online registration centre in Delhi for the migrant labours. This centre was created for the registration of migrant labours so that they can go back to their home states. Then it simply proves that Congress party is in mood to polities the movement of migrant labours to their home states.