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-The Telegraph

Migrant fiasco: Part II unfolds

The decision to squeeze some money out of the mass movement of migrants blew up in the Centre’s face on Monday, prompting it to try and shift the blame to state governments. But the paper trail shows that states were asked to “collect the ticket fare” and hand over the amount to the Indian Railways.

This is the second time the Narendra Modi government is finding itself at the centre of a storm over the treatment meted out to the poor migrants after locking them down with a four-hour notice in March, which triggered the biggest unplanned exodus in the country since the Partition.

As the plight of the stranded migrants took centre stage again with reports of them having to pay for their fare after a month and a half of unemployment, railway ministry spokesperson Rajesh Dutt Bajpai said on Sunday evening that the guidelines say the sending state would pay the consolidated fare to the railways.

“Sending state may decide to bear this cost or take it from passengers or take it from receiving state after mutual consultation or may charge it to any fund. It is purely their prerogative,” Bajpai said.

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