Nagaland : Demand for Special Trains and Feeder Transport to Evacuate Stranded People
18th May 2020
NPCC is seriously concerned about the plight of those workers and students from Nagaland stranded in different parts of the country. 55 days into lockdown, many workers have lost their jobs and are out on the streets after being evicted for nonpayment of house rent.
The ever looming threat of pandemic, racial attack and hunger are creating greater humanitarian crisis far beyond our imagination. Every passing day is becoming difficult to survive for majority of our people.
As a national party with presence in every nook and corner of the country, NPCC had done its best to extend every possible help through other state Congress units to our stranded people whenever they approached NPCC COVID-19 Task Force.
However, with every state government in North East arranging special train to bring thousands of its citizens back in the past few days, the growing chorus of our people wanting to be evacuated is getting louder and louder.
We therefore urge the state government to arrange special trains from different major cities of India and also to arrange feeder transport in coordination with host state to help stranded ones reach the originating station for onward journey to Nagaland.
The evacuation process should be completed within a week by deploying additional manpower to monitor the situation in different states and a senior IAS officer whose position in the govt will be given due weightage by his counterparts in other states to meet the urgent demands of the unfolding humanitarian crisis.
Despite our earlier offer of bearing cost of train fares for needy workers and migrant labourers being turned down by state govt, we offer our assistance in coordinating with Congress ruled states to evacuate our people. The state govt stands to lose nothing by putting up collective effort in these extraordinary times.
Issued by: Communication Dept,
NPCC (Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee )
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This Press Release was posted on 19 May 2020
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