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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bicycles left behind by migrant workers during Covid lockdown auctioned for ₹21 lakh -S Raju

Bicycles left behind by migrant workers during Covid lockdown auctioned for ₹21 lakh -S Raju

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published Published on Jun 4, 2022   modified Modified on Jun 5, 2022

-Hindustan Times

During the Covid pandemic-induced lockdown in early 2020, nearly 25,000 migrant workers reached Saharanpur on bicycles while heading back to their native places in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar from their places of work in Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.

Meerut: The Saharanpur district administration has auctioned 5,400 bicycles left behind by migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar while rushing home during the nationwide lockdown in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic, a senior official aware of the development said on Saturday.

A total of 21.2 lakh collected through the auction of the bicycles on Friday has been deposited in the state exchequer, said Kinshuk Srivastava, sub-divisional magistrate (SDM), Sadar. “It is now the discretion of the state government how to utilise the money.”

During the pandemic-induced lockdown in early 2020, nearly 25,000 migrant workers reached Saharanpur on bicycles while heading back to their native places in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar from their places of work in Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.

Saharanpur district is the gateway to Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

On reaching Saharanpur, they were stopped and quarantined in Radha Swami Satsang enclosures. The migrant workers were then sent to their native places in buses with the administration handing them tokens to collect their bicycles later, said an official familiar with the development, requesting anonymity.

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Hindustan Times, 4 June, 2022, https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bicycles-left-behind-by-migrant-workers-during-covid-lockdown-auctioned-for-21-lakh-101654366834800.html


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