Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Apr 29: The Dakshina Kannada (DK) district administration at last succeeded in sending away migrant workers who were in Mangaluru to their hometowns by buses on Wednesday, April 29.

Buses had been arranged to various districts of north Karnataka from near the Town Hall here. As many as 1,100 workers boarded 37 buses and travelled to their places.

On Tuesday, hundreds of workers from different parts of the district had congregated in the city. They had crowded the Town Hall area. Under the leadership of city corporation commissioner Ajith Kumar Hegde, arrangements had been made to send them to their villages. These workers will be reaching their homes by today evening.

Still, there has been a steady inflow of migrant workers to the Town Hall. Noting this, deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh, has instructed the workers not to gather at the Town Hall. She said that travel arrangement for the migrant workers would be made as per the government instructions and that preparations are under way to send them to either their homes or to places of their work as the case may be.

The deputy commissioner has asked the migrant workers to stay where they are put up now. She said that local officials will put together information from respective wards and thereafter the workers would be informed about the travel arrangement. She warned that action will be initiated against contractors if they bring migrant workers to the city for sending them to their hometowns. She also stated that such people will be acted against by the police too.