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Chandigarh: 1,000 migrants evacuated from Bapu Dham

Chandigarh: As part of the exercise to evacuate migrants from Bapu Dham colony in Sector 26, the Chandigarh administration on Thursday sent approximately 1,000 of them to their native places. With this, over 75% migrants have been moved out of the colony, which has been the hotspot of Covid-19 in the city.

Of these 1,000 migrants, around 150 were from Bihar and the rest from Uttar Pradesh.

They boarded trains from Chandigarh railway station after medical screening.

“A major chunk of migrants was from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. We sent them to their native places while adhering to the Covid-19 travel protocol. The train, which left for Gonda district on Thursday, had people from Gonda, Pratapgarh, Amethi and a few other districts falling on the route. Now, the number of remaining migrants in the colony is not much and we are planning to evacuate them as well,” said a senior officer of the UT administration involved in the process.

“We have not touched the containment zone part of the area and all those sent were from other parts of the colony not affected by Covid-19. Since these migrants were largely labourers and vendors working as daily wagers, they were struggling hard to run their livelihood, especially because entire Bapu Dham is sealed. So, it was a major relief for them,” he added.

As per information, after evacuating from the colony, all registered migrants are being taken directly to Sector 26-based engineering college for medical test, and from there they are taken to the railway station in CTU buses.

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