Sonia Gandhi said in a letter to the state units that every Pradesh Congress committee shall bear the cost of rail travel for every needy worker and migrant labourer
Current Affairs : After a choice by the Congress gathering to hold up under the expense of train travel by the transient specialists, the Center government is probably going to come out with a declaration making the movement on Shramik Special trains free for vagrant workers.
As per an official source near the turn of events, there are plans to make the excursion free for transient workers. On Monday, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said in a letter to the state units that each Pradesh Congress Committee will bear the expense of rail travel for each penniless specialist and transient worker. At present, workers are being charged sleeper class admissions and an extra Rs 50 for a pre-concluded source to goal venture.
Hitting hard at the administration’s choice to charge abandoned vagrant workers, Sonia Gandhi named the present emergency at standard with the segment of the nation. “Indeed, even today, lakhs of laborers and vagrant workers are moping in various pieces of the nation and wish to come back to their homes and families yet there is neither sufficient cash nor arrangement with the expectation of complimentary vehicle. Is especially upsetting that the Central Government and the Rail Ministry are charging them for train tickets in this hour of emergency,” she said.
Following the Congress choice, Rajya Sabha part and the BJP pioneer Subramanian Swamy tweeted that he had a word with the workplace of the Railways serve Piyush Goyal and the Center government will pay 85 percent of the vagrant passage and the staying 15 percent state governments will bear. “Vagrant work will go free. Service will explain with an official explanation,” he said.
At the point when gotten some information about this, a Railways official said that there is no official choice taken in such manner.
Aditi Mehta 