West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Has Actually Asked The Train Ministry Not To Send Shramik Special Trains To The State Till May 26 In View Of CycloneAmphan A Minimum Of 86 People In West Bengal Have Actually Passed Away Due To CycloneAmphan Regular Life Thrown Out Of Equipment By The Worst Weather Catastrophe.

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Mamata Banerjee has actually asked the Train Ministry not to send Shramik Special trains to the state till May 26 in view of CycloneAmphan (Image Credit: News Country)

Kolkata:

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has actually asked the Train Ministry not to send Shramik Special trains to the state till May 26 in view of CycloneAmphan The letter from West Bengal Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha to Chairman of Train board V K Yadav dated May 22, specified that the state has actually been significantly affected by Super Cyclone Amphan on May 20-21 which triggered comprehensive damage to the facilities. “As the district administrations are involved in relief and rehabilitation works, it will not be possible to receive special trains for the next few days. It is therefore requested that no train should be sent to West Bengal till May 26,” the letter from the Bengal federal government has actually stated.

A minimum of 86 people in West Bengal have actually passed away due to CycloneAmphan With regular life thrown away of equipment by the area’s worst weather catastrophe, the authorities have actually been rushing to bring back normalcy. West Bengal has actually gotten the least number of Shramik Special trains considering that such service started to ferryboat migrant labourers back home amidst the coronavirus-forced lockdown. Home Minister Amit Shah in a letter had actually declared that Bengal was not permitting its migrants to return. Later on, it was chosen that the authorization of the location state was not required to run these trains.

Consequently, train minister Piyush Goyal too appealed to the West Bengal federal government to permit the migrant special trains to enter thestate Far, over 2,000 Shramik Special trains have actually been run considering that May 1 transporting over 31 lakh migrant employees. Around 35 trains have actually ended in Bengal up until now. Lakhs of people were rendered homeless as Cyclone Amphan cut a course of damage through half- a-dozen districts of the state on Wednesday, flattening homes, rooting out thousands of trees and overloading low-lying locations. According to official sources, around 1.5 crore people of the state have actually been straight impacted and more than 10 lakh homes ruined due to the cyclone.

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First Released: 23 May 2020, 02: 18: 06 PM

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