Chennai: The Tamilnadu government today said it would bear the train fare of migrant labourers who would like to go to their native places in view of Covid-19 lockdown.
This will be done if their respective States did not come forward to pay the fare. According to sources, money for their travel expenses will be allocated from State Disaster Relief Fund.
The Indian Railways recently said it had operated 163 Shramik Special trains since 1 May and ferried home over 1.60 lakh migrants stranded in various parts of the country due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
Railways said it ran 56 Shramik special trains on Wednesday and 14 so far on Thursday, taking the total tally to 163. Till 7 May, 50 trains were still on their journeys while 113 have reached their destinations.