Jaipur: In a heart-wrenching incident, ETV Bharat came across a truck full of hungry labourers in Jaipur on Friday. Thanks to the team's efforts, the labourers were then provided with food and water.
With all transportation being shut due to the nationwide lockdown, many migrant workers have no other option but to leave for their homes on foot. Though the government has announced assistance for them, ETV Bharat's Jaipur team set off to get a reality check of the ground situation.
It was then that our senior reporter spotted a truck with many people on it. With a sense of social responsibility, the reporter then halted the truck.
It was found that the truck was transporting labourers from Gujarat to Agra. The labourers revealed that many of them belonged to towns like Bharatpur, Dholpur, Agra, and Mathura.
Suraj, one of the migrant labourer from Gujarat told ETV Bharat that he wants to return to his native village in Dholpur. Suraj expressed satisfaction after his only meal in two days finally found its way to the stomach.
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Another worker revealed that he hasn't tasted water since morning as nobody wanted their truck to halt or get close to anyone amid COVID-19 scare.
Narrating their plight, the labourers told the reporter that they were hungry and parched as they neither had any food to eat nor water to drink since Wednesday.
ETV Bharat then reached out to the Jaipur Police and with their help provided the hungry labourers with food. It is also to be noted that several volunteering groups came forward to support the efforts of the Jaipur police and ETV Bharat. A water tanker was also called in to provide clean drinking water to them.
"Around 100 labourers are being provided with food and fresh drinking water. Further, we are providing them a training on how to practice social distancing and medical checks will be done to check any cases of infections," Shipra path police officials, Khalil Ahmed told ETV Bharat.
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In recent days, a mass exodus from Mansarovar region is being witnessed and the state administration has empowered district magistrates in each check-points to ensure facilities for the migrating labourers.
At the end a total of 200 food packets were distributed to the migrant workers on the truck and with its socially responsible efforts, ETV Bharat has been able to help several needy people obtain basic necessities like food during the past few days of the lockdown.
