TN plans to send back 10,000 migrants per day: CM

According to him, 55,473 migrant workers have been returned to different states, like Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, in 43 trains between May 6 and May 15. Palaniswami said the TN government was bearing the entire expenditure - train and food - and requested the migrant workers not to try to return their home states on foot and by other means.

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CHENNAI, MAY 16

Tamil Nadu plans to send 10,000 migrant workers a day to their home states and has requested them to stay at the camps till arrangements are made for their travel.

Action was being taken in consultation with other states to send back around 10,000 migrant workers daily from Tamil Nadu, said Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami, here on Saturday.

According to him, 55,473 migrant workers have been returned to different states, like Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, in 43 trains between May 6 and May 15.

Palaniswami said the TN government was bearing the entire expenditure – train and food – and requested the migrant workers not to try to return their home states on foot and by other means.