Centre orders closure of state borders to stop migrants’ exodus

As thousands of migrant workers continued to return to their homes across states, the Union Government on Sunday said all those who have travelled during the lockdown period will be put under a mandatory 14-day quarantine at government facilities. In pic: Migrants waiting for bus and their bags getting sanitized at Anand Vihar bus terminal on Sunday. (Express photo: Prem Nath Pandey)

The government has stressed that states should make arrangements to pay the migrant labourers in the city where they were working and has also stated that rent should not be asked from such labourers or students. (Express photo: Prem Nath Pandey)

The Delhi Police has begun closing arterial roads in the city, especially those leading to the border areas, and turning back migrant workers travelling by foot.(Express photo: Amit Mehra)

Ghaziabad administration has deployed 1,500 buses to take the migrant workers who had returned from Delhi and Bihar due to the coronavirus lockdown to their native districts where they will be checked for COVID-19 symptoms, PTI reported. (Express photo: Vishal Srivastav)

States have now been directed to ensure there is no movement of people across cities or on highways. Only movement of goods should be allowed. (Express photo: Vishal Srivastav)

Out of hunger, migrant workers picking berries from plants near the NH-24. (Express photo: Tashi Tobgyal)

Even as supply of essentials are being maintained, the government said that “there has been movement of migrant workers in some parts of the country”. In pic: Delhi and Ghaziabad's migrant labourers leaving from Lal Kuan in Ghaziabad on Saturday night. (Express photo: Amit Mehra)

A large number of migrant workers have left their work places in different parts of the country in last few days and walking down to their native places, hundreds of kilometres away facing hardships on the way.(Express photo: Amit Mehra)

Seeing their plight, some state governments have made arrangements for their transport, accommodation and food of late. (Express photo: Amit Mehra)