The Railway Ministry’s move to get migrant labourers to pay their way home and the states to collect that payment, is becoming the new flashpoint between the government and the opposition. As the countrywide lockdown to combat the coronavirus was extended for another two weeks, the centre started running special trains since Friday to ferry stranded labourers to their home states.But contrary to the states’ demand, it is charging the migrant labourers.
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