Moumita Vishwanath Majumdar, a lady in her late twenties, is sitting with her face covered at the base of an iron pillar outside the primary gate of Howrah station, the crucial train station that connects West Bengal to the rest of the nation. When asked what her name is, she breaks down.
One batch of stranded employees, sitting together in a group without sanitiser or soap and many without mask at Howrah Station
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” Please get me out of here, I can not take this anymore,” Ms. Majumdar states, weeping. Weeping rely on sobbing in a couple of seconds.
” I will pass away … I require to return to my mother … I have never ever seen this previously,” states Ms. Majumdar, who originated from Nagpur early on Monday and is sitting at the station’s portico for two days. She can neither visit her brother in Nadia district nor return.
She has had one meal of rice and lentils in the last 48 hours, which came from the Howrah District Magistrate’s office. The policemen of Howrah Train Station Traffic Guard, manning the station, do not have a concept when the next meal will get here. However, hunger is just a secondary issue for many numerous individuals stranded in the Howrah station over last 40 to 96 hours.
” We have no toilet,” says Ruby Acharjee, a 42- year-old lady from Silchar.
Ukesh Kharia on right and his pal Krishna Mohli from north Bengal. They are practically starving, they said
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She left Chennai right away, reached Howrah in 3 days and got stranded.
” There is one toilet outside for women, likewise used by guys and it’s a hellhole,” she says.
