[splco_heading size=”15″ align=”left” margin=”30″]A controversy erupted again on the same issue on Wednesday when a video clip showing migrants workers being sprayed with disinfectants in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow surfaced on social media. [/splco_heading]
The incident took place on Tuesday when migrant workers travelling through Shramik Express trains deboarded at the Charbagh railway station.
The migrants were divided into different groups to board buses to their home districts when a civic official sprayed chemicals on a family sitting on the ground.
In the video, children and women who have all their belongings out on the road being hit by waves of chemicals.
The Lucknow Municipal Corporation has confirmed that the video is from Charbagh and that a civic official committed the mistake.
According to Lucknow Municipal Corporation Commissioner Indramani Tripathi, buses were being sanitised at the railway station and in the process of sanitisation, the disinfectant was accidentally sprayed on the migrants.
Tripathi said that the employee responsible for the incident has been removed as he did not follow set protocols.
Thousands of migrants from eastern and southern states have been arriving at the railway station in Lucknow since the Ministry of Home Affairs permitted interstate travel for people stranded due to the Covid-19 lockdown across the country.
Around 60 to 70 buses are plying people to different districts from each train that comes in and the buses are routinely being sanitised during which Tuesday’s incident took place.
More than a month ago, a similar incident from UP’s Bareilly had generated outrage.
A viral video showed more than two dozen migrant workers sitting on the streets as sanitation workers wearing protective gear sprayed disinfectants on the workers.
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