bhopal after witnessing the caravan of migrant misery wind down its highways for days on end the madhya pradesh government has finally announced a fleet of special buses to ferry those on foot to the up and bihar borders or to their home districts in mp for freeon tuesday toi had carried a report on how thousands upon thousands of migrants children in tow are trudging on empty stomachs in this scorching weather to reach their home statesa government notification dated may 11 says the government has requisitioned 375 buses to pick up migrants from highways and take them to the interstate borders for free it will also provide food drinking water firstaid and medicines at designated transit points migrants shouldnt have to walk in this scorching heat under any circumstances says the orderchief minister shivraj singh chouhan has directed the administration to ensure all necessary facilities to workers coming from other states on footbus owners to get 70 pay in advancedistrict collectors have been advised to set up transit points at sendhwa dewas guna gwalior shivpuri and daulatpur sehore where migrants can get rest and refreshments those from mp will be bussed to their home district headquarters from where the administration will arrange to send them homethose headed for other states and passing through mp will be given food water and medicines and put on buses that will drop them on the border migrants will be picked up from wherever they are in mp the longest bus route in the notification is from sendhwa on the mpmaharashtra border to morena on the up border a distance of 738km and the shortest is 199km from morena to jhansi bus owners will be paid 70 in advance and expenses for this will be drawn from the state disaster relief fund said officials as many as 100 buses have been arranged for the sendhwadewas route 50 for dewasguna 40 for dewassagar 20 for gunabhind up border 80 for gunadeenara jhansiup border 25 for morenagwaliordatiajhansi