Bengaluru, (Samajweekly) The Internal Security Division (ISD) of the Karnataka Police is contacting each and every registered migrant labourer to arrange a train journey back home, an official said on Tuesday.
“A control room in the ISD is working 24×7 to reach out to each and every migrant registered on the Seva Sindhu app to make arrangements for the train journey,” P.S. Sandhu, Additional Director General of Police, ISD, told IANS.
Sandhu is spearheading migrant labourers’ mobilisation to the railway stations for onward journey to their respective home states.
“The respective state governments (home states of migrants) gave us a list of migrant labourers interested to go home. We also allow migrants to register on the Seva Sindhu app,” he said.
The control room contacting the migrants is led by a DSP rank officer and a team of policemen.
“When my number was shared on April 30, I received more than 2,000 phone calls and numerous WhatsApp messages from people interested to return home,” he said.
Sandhu handed over his phone to the control room team to contact every migrant to arrange for their return.
Once the formalities are completed, the migrants are advised to gather at a particular location to be ferried in KSRCTC buses to the designated railway station, supervised by the local Deputy Commissioner of Police, on completion of medical screening.
“The migrants go through multiple checks and verification, their details are scrutinised on the Seva Sindhu app, Aarogya Setu app and state government list,” said Sandhu...
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