- Anurag Pathak/ 2.4.2020
Gujarat Police has arrested over 90 migrant
workers in Surat for defying the lockdown orders, in force since 25 March. The incident happened
last Sunday, 29 March, when over 500 workers took to the streets in Ganesh
Nagar and Tirupati Nagar areas of the city demanding arrangement of
transportation facilities to reach their respective home towns.
30 vehicles were torched and several workers and policemen were injured in the clash after police used force to disperse the crowd of agitating but unarmed workers.
Both the localities of Ganesh Nagar and
Tirupati Nagar which comes in Pandesara region of the Surat city are hubs of
migrant workers working in different powerlooms and textile manufacturing
units. Most of them belong to the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. More than
500 such workers gathered on 25 March amidst the fear created by the loss of
livelihood and being far away from their families in such a situation.
