Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has urged the State government to arrange special trains from different major cities of India and feeder transport in coordination with host States to help stranded ones reach the originating station for onward journey to Nagaland.
NPCC also demanded that evacuation process should be completed within a week by deploying additional manpower to monitor the situation in different States and a senior IAS officer whose position in the government would be given due weightage by his counterparts in other States to meet the urgent demands of the unfolding humanitarian crisis.
NPCC said it was seriously concerned about the plight of workers and students from Nagaland stranded in different parts of India, adding 55 days into lockdown, many workers had lost their jobs and were out on the streets after being evicted by landlords for non-payment of house rents. The ever looming threat of pandemic, racial attack and hunger were creating greater humanitarian crisis far beyond “our imagination”, while every passing day was becoming difficult to survive for majority of “our people”, it added.
Despite its offer of bearing cost of train fares for needy workers and migrant labourers being turned down by the state government, NPCC said it was offering to coordinate with Congress-ruled States to evacuate “our people”, adding the State government stands to lose nothing by putting up collective effort in these extraordinary times.
As a national party with presence in every nook and corner of the country, the release said Congress had done its best to extend every possible help through other State party units to “our stranded people” whenever they approached NPCC COVID-19 Task Force.