With millions of migrant workers eager to go back to their native place, the Centre on Tuesday gave more power to Indian railways to expedite the process of ferrying these workers back home in Shramik Special trains.
According to fresh guidelines issued by the home ministry, railways will not have to seek consent of the destination or the receiving states.
These special trains carrying migrant workers were flagged off from various cities on 1 May for the first time after the lockdown was imposed on 25 March.
Till now, consent of both, the destination state and the originating state, was required to run the train to ferry the migrants and railways had to be informed regarding the same beforehand.