STATE GOVERNMENT BEARS ALL EXPENDITURE FOR FREE TRAVEL OF MIGRANTS- KUMAR AMIT
Patiala, May 8- Owing to the strenuous efforts of the state government led by the Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh the second special train with 1200 migrants onboard chugged off from Patiala railway station to Jaunpur UP on Friday.The migrants doled out blessings to the government for facilitating their journey back home, free of cost.
Deputy Commissioner Patiala Mr. Kumar Amit said that the Punjab government was bearing the entire expenses of all the trains from Patiala to various Cities of other states. Apart from it state government was also providing refreshment for the migrants who were moving to their native state in the trains.
Mr. Kumar told that pertinently, the Captain Amarinder Singh led Punjab Government has sanctioned special funds, for the migrants’ cost of transportation by the Indian Railways. The Patiala administration has received the amount from the state government which was being paid to the Railways directly for providing tickets to the registered passengers thereby enabling them to go to their native states free of cost, said DC Mr. Kumar Amit.
Likewise, a team of the Health department was screening every migrant who was coming to the station for boarding the train. The district civil and police administration had made adequate arrangements for maintaining social distancing amongst the passengers before boarding the train.
Pertinently, Patiala Administration also facilitated the travel back of other persons via a special train to Azamgarh and via buses to Rajsthan and J&K, added DC Kumar Amit.
While boarding of passengers into the train, Excise and Taxation Department’s AETC Mr. Shaukat Ahmed Parrey, Commissioner Municipal Corporation Mrs. Punamdeep Kaur, S.D.M. Charanjit Singh, Assistant Commissioner Ismat Vijay Singh and Inayat Gupta, Joint Commissioner Avikesh Gupta, Lal Vishwas, Jagnur Singh Grewal and Jasleen Kaur and Station Superintendent Ajit Singh Cheema, Tehsildar Ranjit Singh and Naib Tehsildar Parmjit Jindal were also present on the occasion.
