3 May 2020

Govt wary of migrants' rush to return home

... and Western Railways together ran 10 Shramik Special trains to Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Bhopal, Agra and Puri namely from Vasai, Bhiwandi, Nashik, ...
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Migrants can finally go home, but many can't pay for train or bus

Three Shramik trains carrying 1,200 passengers departed on Sunday — one each from Vasai and Bhiwandi on the outskirts of the MMR region –– to ...
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Maharashtra govt announces that shops selling non-essential commodities to be allowed to open ...

... shramik special train left for Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh carrying 1,159 migrant labourers this morning from Vasai road station in Palghar district.
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Railways asks states to collect fares from Shramik Special passengers

“There are no trains planned for now, but we are running (trains) in nearby places…like in Maharashtra trains, are being run at Bhiwandi and Vasai
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15000 swamp Mumbai police stations for place on migrant trains

Early on Sunday, two more trains were to leave for Gorakhpur — one from Bhiwandi and the other from Vasai. Both were to carry 1,200 passengers ...
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Migrant workers board train amid tight security to return home

Jiten, who worked in Thane had boarded a truck from Vasai to travel to Uttar Pradesh. But his truck was stopped by the Satpur police on March 29 and ...
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Maharashtra's MMR continues to be COVID-19 concern area

... Kalyan-Dombivli, Panvel, Vasai-Virar, Mira-Bhayender, Bhiwandi-Nizampur and Ulhasnagar -- till Saturday evening had registered 9,709 cases and ...
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10 special trains took migrants to Bihar, UP and Jharkhand today: Railways

... and Vasai in Mumbai. Trains will only run to these places when the demand from the state government comes,” the official added. The Railways also ...
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Man arrested over killing of Hindu sadhus in Palghar lynching tests positive for Coronavirus

The 115 accused were produced in Dahanu court which ordered them to police remand till May 14. The accused have been kept in batches in lockups ...
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Coronavirus: Mumbai metropolitan region continues to be concern area

... Kalyan-Dombivli, Panvel, Vasai-Virar, Mira-Bhayender, Bhiwandi-Nizampur and Ulhasnagar. Besides, it has nine municipal councils of Ambernath, ...
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Mumbai lockdown news: Today's updates from your city

Special train with 1,200 migrants left for Gorakhpur junction in UP from Vasai railway station at 4.20am on Sunday… https://t.co/qmUQ5HY8wp.
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No easing of lockdown for Mumbai & Pune: What's open and what's shut

All industrial work is allowed in rural areas of red zones (in MMR there are rural areas in parts of Vasai-Virar, Palghar, Bhiwandi and Raigad).
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Maharashtra stays firm, no easing of lockdown for Mumbai & Pune

All industrial work is allowed in rural areas of red zones (in MMR there are rural areas in parts of Vasai-Virar, Palghar, Bhiwandi and Raigad).
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Mumbai: We can't afford steep road travel, say migrants

He was on a truck from Vasai headed for UP when he was stopped by Satpur police and taken to a shelter home in Nashik on March 29. “It has been ...
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