Cops help migrants heading home

AURANGABAD:

Aurangabad

city police, along with private bus operators, transporters and social workers, are found walking an extra mile to arrange transport for innumerable migrant workers reaching Aurangabad from different parts of the state.

Aurangabad commissioner of police Chiranjeev Prasad took cognizance of the voluntary work done by a group comprising a leading private bus operator —

Gauri Farooqi Kamaal

alias Baba Seth, transporter Abdul Wase Patni, social activists Rafat Yar Khan, Yusuf Khan and Wajid Pasha — and deployed a round-the-clock police team for assisting them in their work.

As a result, help desks have been set up at Baba Petrol Pump cross-road, railway station and Mahanubhav Ashram Chowk from where food packets, drinking water and transportation arrangements are being made for these migrant workers heading to their home states.

CP Prasad told TOI, “We need to understand the fact that not only the stranded workers at the camps, but also innumerable migrant workers employed at the industrial houses of Aurangabad and those walking from far off places, are reaching the city while heading back to their home states.”