State govt will not charge migrant workers for train travel: CM Yogi Adityanath

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that his government will not charge for anything including train fare from migrant workers returning to the state or going away from UP. For the next two months migrant workers whose numbers are in millions will get free ration kits. 

Strict orders have been issued to officials that not a single person in state should sleep empty stomach. For this CM Yogi Adityanath has ordered officials to launch a massive campaign in each and every village and ward in cities to identify those persons who have not got food or ration facilities till date in state. A record number of 67 trains carrying migrant workers from different states are reaching Uttar



Pradesh today. 

Till date around 4 lakh migrant workers have arrived in state in 318 trains. Trains will run from different stations like Gautam Buddh Nagar, Ghaziabad and Saharanpur to other parts of state. State will bring migrant workers from Delhi NCR region in four trains which will run daily. Workers of Bihar in Uttar Pradesh will also be send to their state in special trains.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath yesterday said that State government will soon bring housing scheme for lower and lower middle class families of the state on the line of Pradhan Mantri Aawas Yojana which will also benefit the labourers.