New Delhi: Amid the lockdown to curb Covid-19 in the national capital, a large number of labourers from the Keshavpuram and Wazirpur industrial areas returned to their native places in overcrowded private buses.
One such bus was visited by ETV Bharat in the Keshavpuram area, which was overcrowded. Most of the labourers were travelling to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
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People from almost all age groups were present in the bus, without fearing the ongoing situation.
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Speaking to ETV Bharat, a local native said, "Overcrowded private buses like this from Keshavpuram and Wazirpur area ply to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar every day. The operators simply do this for more income. For greed to earn more money by turning a disaster into opportunity, bus operators are inviting this life-threatening disease upon themselves and others. Neither these buses are sanitized nor does the administration check them."
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Earlier, while announcing a week-long curfew in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had appealed to migrant labourers to not leave the city and go.
He assured that the Delhi government will take care of them.
