After returning to UP, migrant workers claim they were made to pay for train fare in Mumbai

May 04, 2020

Siddharthnagar (Uttar Pradesh), May 05 (ANI): On the day the central government clarified that it will bear 85% of train fare for transporting stranded migrant labourers, and the rest by respective state governments, a set of migrant workers, who reached Uttar Pradesh from Mumbai claimed they were made to pay for their tickets by the Railways. Ram Kalam, a migrant labourer who reached UP's Siddharthnagar from Mumbai's Nalasopara via train, said that he was made to pay Rs 740 as train fare in Mumbai. Kalam said although he didn't have money, he had to make arrangements somehow. Another migrant worker made similar claims that he was made to pay for his train fare in Mumbai, and by the time he reached UP, he was out of money to even feed himself.