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NEW DELHI: Over 2.5 lakh passengers have travelled on 222 special trains for migrant labourers stranded because of the ongoing lockdown announced to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the country, the ministry of home affairs (MHA) said on Friday.
Addressing a press conference, MHA joint secretary Punya Salila Srivastava said the government intends to give relaxations to people within the lockdown guidelines.
These trains are part of this endeavour, she said.
Asked about the killing of 16 migrant workers on railway tracks in Aurangabad in Maharashtra, she said it was an “unfort