Workers from Uttar Pradesh are on their way to Bihar, where they work in brick factories.
Lucknow:
Images of Aligarh train station in western Uttar Pradesh, filmed on Tuesday afternoon, show zero social distancing as hundreds of workers and their families from Aligarh and neighboring districts gathered to ride aboard trains bound for Bihar where they work in brick kilns.
Station cellphone videos show hundreds of workers – men, women and children – with bags on their heads gathered outside the station, moving slowly inside. Another video shows more people sitting next to each other on the floor as the queue moves slowly. The two videos clearly show that no standard of social distancing is maintained.
A third video shows a group of police officers leading a line of workers and their families inside the station, but again without social distancing.
Asked about the lack of social distancing at a time when there is an increase in cases of coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh and the rest of the country, Rajvir Diler, BJP parliamentarian from the neighboring district of Hathras, who was at the station to mark Bihar. bound trains, helplessness pleaded.
“When the crowds are larger and the space is smaller, it can happen. We are trying to manage the situation,” said the MP.
“The three trains go to Gaya in Bihar. We are trying to establish a social distancing, but the workers have a lot of luggage and there are a lot of children. We have also disinfected the trains correctly,” explained Kuldev Singh , a senior government official. at the station, said to the media.
