Over six hundred thousand people registered, in less than a week, on the website www.epass.jantasamavad, launched by the Delhi administration for those who want to return home. "Thanks to buses and special trains of the Shramik project," said an official of the new office, created ad hoc by the government of the capital, "we have already organized the return of 45 thousand people: a drop in the sea".
The new department has the task, among other things, of forwarding requests to those who wish to return to the States and of checking that they leave only after having obtained the clearance.
"The wait can be long: we try to dissuade them from starting on foot or from relying on insecure vehicles such as trucks that offer paid passes on the caissons".
Since the central government authorized return journeys to the countries of origin in early May, India has been experiencing one of the most massive internal migrations in recent years, of which nobody has yet been able to measure the exact dimensions. What is known, however, is the impressive aftermath of fatal accidents: according to the newspaper The Indian Express, 150 people have died on the roads since 24 March, of which 130 since 4 May alone.
After the initial harsh attitude of the central government, which for over a month has forced states to keep workers in reception centers blocked, even the BJP, the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, recognized the criticality of migration over the weekend in progress: in a meeting via web with local leaders, the party president JP Nadda invited them to set up, on all national highways, rescue points every hundred kilometers to provide those who walk with water, food, shoes, and shelter .
The Congress party, on the initiative of Priyanka Gandhi, has organized a thousand buses that should bring some tens of thousands of people stranded to the frontiers of Uttar Pradesh for days. They should, because an arm wrestling with the governor of the state Yogi Adityanath is likely to lead to the failure of the initiative
India - Millions on the roads do not stop the exodus from the cities
2020-05-20T13:22:59.860Z
May 20 © ANSAOver six hundred thousand people registered, in less than a week, on the website www.epass.jantasamavad, launched by the Delhi administration for those who want to return home. "Thanks to buses and special trains of the Shramik project," said an official of the new office, created ad hoc by the government of the capital, "we have already organized the return of 45 thousand people: a drop in the se...