Datia. 03 April2020/ In Datia, Madhya Pradesh, the situation became critical when hundreds of laborers jumped and threatened to die in Sindh river located on the border of Datia district. These workers were adamant on going towards their homes. The administration informed them about the arrangements for eating and drinking. Asked them not to break the lock down. But it had no effect. These workers started threatening to die. After all, the administration had to bow down to them.
To prevent the migration of laborers from Delhi and other states, the Madhya Pradesh government has locked the boundaries of all the districts connected with Datia. Following the order of the border lock, a vehicle full of thousands of laborers in the city stopped the Datia administration from entering the border of their district near the Sindh River. Due to this, many vehicles filled with thousands of workers of Sindh bridge stopped. On receiving the information, the Dabra administration reached the spot and directed the workers to stay in Dabra itself. But the workers were not ready to stop here. There was a dispute between the workers and the administration over breaking the lock-down. Eventually the administration succumbed to the stubbornness of the workers.
SP Aman Singh Rathore of Datia and Jayant Singh, SDM, tried their best to persuade them. Eventually, they had to listen to the workers. After discussion, some vehicles were evacuated to their next stop, rest of the laborers were stopped in Dabra and arrangements were made for their food.
Workers arriving by foot and loading vehicles from Delhi and other states as soon as they came out of the city, near the Sind river bridge, the administration of Datia district stopped them and did not allow them to enter their border. More than 5 thousand workers stopped by truck, matador, bus and pedestrians near the bridge of Sindh river, the workers had to either let them go, otherwise they would jump into the river itself. The workers, who agreed to stay at Dabra at the behest of the administration, asked the administration to arrange for them at the Central School and the Agricultural Produce Market, near the St. Peter’s School.
On receiving the information about the workers’ stop on the bridge of Sindh river, the social workers doing relief work reached the bridge and arranged for food packets, biscuits and water to the laborers. Along with this, villagers were also seen making water arrangements for the laborers going on the highway to many places. The people of Sikh society came forward to distribute food packets to the laborers and made arrangements for the laborers. Similarly, other people are also giving food to the migrating people.
