Train with 1384 passengers from Bengaluru arrives
Source: The Sangai Express / DIPR

Imphal, May 17 2020: A special train from Bengaluru carrying 1384 stranded Manipuris reached Jiribam Railway Station at 3.52 pm today.

Six buses for Ukhrul with 105 passengers, six buses for Churachandpur & Pherzawl districts carrying 123 passengers, one bus for Tamenglong district with 26 passengers left for their respective districts.

Six buses for Senapati district with 123 passengers left Jiribam at 5.25 pm .

For Chandel district, two buses carrying 49 passengers left at 5.50 pm and four buses for Kakching district carrying 104 passengers left Jiribam at 6.20 pm .

Four buses for Bishnupur district carrying 93 passengers left at 7.13 pm while five buses for Kangpokpi district with 107 passengers left Jiribam at 6.50 pm .

Train with 1384 passengers from Bengaluru arrives

Seven buses for Thoubal district with 147 passengers including 1 baby left at 7.40 pm.

One bus for Kamjong district carrying 19 passengers left Jiribam at 8 pm while one bus for Noney district with 20 passengers also left Jiribam at 8 pm.

Later, 69 buses took away the passengers to their respective districts.

The returnees were screened at the Jiribam Railway Station and would have to remain in isolation at community quarantine centres for 14 days.

Transport Department officials are stationed at ticket counters, from where passengers get their tickets to go to their respective districts.

All the returnees boarded the buses after undergoing necessary screening process and other mandatory procedures.

The train left Bengaluru on May 14 .

This is the third train to arrive at Jiribam during the Nationwide lockdown.

On May 13, altogether 1140 passengers arrived from Chennai and on May 15, 932 passengers arrived from Punjab.

It is being speculated that another train which left Baroda with 613 stranded Manipuri people on May 15 may arrive at Jiribam late tonight.

32 buses have been kept on standby to take the passengers to their respective districts.

Meanwhile, samples of 218 stranded people were tested at JNIMS and RIMS today and all of them turned out to be COVID-19 negative.

The total figure includes 12 prisoners who were recently handed over to Manipur by Myanmar and 12 individuals with mild fever referred directly from district screening centre (at St Joseph School) of Tengnoupal district located at Kakching Lamkhai, according to a press release issued by COVID-19 Common Control Room spokesman Dr Khoirom Sasheekumar Mangang.