nashikkolhapur more and more migrants workers continued to leave cities in maharashtra from their hometowns in madhya pradesh bihar and uttar pradesh by the special shramik trains on wednesday in nashik 1428 stranded workers started their journey for madhya pradesh the workers from different parts of the district were brought together to the nashik road railway station they left in the endtoend shramik express for rewa at 9 pm every ticket was for rs 525 the charges however were borne by the madhya pradesh government which has allotted the funds to the indian railways therefore no money was taken from the passengers the railway officials saidthe officials added that the train was assigned after the district administration provided a list of workers who were stranded in the district and who had been checked as per the covid19 health norms nobody apart from the bonafide travellers was allowed to get into the train a railway official added in kolhapur more than 2700 migrant workers left for uttar pradesh and bihar in shramik trains that left from chhatrapati shahu maharaj terminus on wednesdaythe passengers were all provided with food kits and water bottles to last the duration of the journey the trains are scheduled to reach prayagraj and chhapra without any haltsmost of these migrants were working in the real estate or the agriculture sector employers of many workers have paid them advances on assurances of returning to work i work in the packaging industry in kagal midc i am leaving because my parents are alone at home no one is there to look after them recently i got a call from mother asking me to return as they are unable to manage by themselves during the lockdown said javed rehman who hails from lucknow rehman is not sure of his return any more so far around 5000 migrant workers have returned by the special train on wednesday a large number of women were seen boarding the train most of these women work in the cottage industries and involved in making the shawls and other handmade productsdistrict guardian minister satej patil who saw the migrants off said the state government had paid the ticket fares for them he said the money has been transferred to the district administration and more special trains will be arranged for if needed patil also arranged for the additional tickets for 64 workers from bihar as their tickets had been cancelled at the last moment he spoke to the railway officials and made the tickets availablemeanwhile the district administration has started issuing passes to the workers from karnataka for travel an official said the travel passes are issued only after conforming the transport arrangements made by the workers on their own many groups have arranged for private buses and vehicles to travel to their villages