New Delhi: The Supreme Court was informed on Friday that at least 1 crore migrant workers have gone back to their native places, 41 lakhs have been transported by road and 57 lakhs by train.
Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta submitted that he had filed an affidavit regarding the Shramik Special Trains operating to take migrants back home.
The centre is in touch with all the states and letter has been written to the chief secretaries enquiring about workers still to be shifted and the number of trains required for that purpose.
SG said that upon request, the government is providing trains within 24 hours. According to the chart submitted, Maharashtra asked only for one train and Centre has already run 802 trains there.
SG also told that as per the Maharashtra government no other person will be going to the state. Maharashtra said that 11 lakh migrants have gone back and 38,000 are remaining.
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Gujrat informed the top court that out of 22 lakhs 2.5 lakhs are remaining to be transported.
Uttar Pradesh said that a lot of labours are not willing to come back to the state and the state has reached an equilibrium today where the health has to be ensured.
The obligation of the state in UP is two-fold, one to send back the migrants who were in UP and to bring back their natives. 1664 trains were organised and 21.69 lakhs were brought back to the state.
Out of these, 5.50 lakhs were brought from Delhi borders and buses did more than 10,000 trips.
Counsel for Bihar informed that it is taking steps for providing employment and 10 lakh people's skill mapping has been done.
West Bengal said that number of people who have registered has still mot been uploaded so the state is still not sure about the numbers. 3,97,389 migrants are still stranded in Bengal and 1 lakh meals are still being served in relief camps.
Karnataka has facilitated 3 lakh migrant workers and there are still lakhs of them in the state.
Tamil Nadu sought more time to file an affidavit to appraise the court about the migrants' transportation details.
The top court also told the states that it can give 15 days of time to them to complete the transportation of migrants.
SG Mehta appearing for the government requested the court to not issue any new norms on quarantine for asymptomatic patients and continuation of present system restricting the focus on getting all migrants back.
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