IN PICTURES | Thousands Of Migrants Throng To Take Govt-Organised Buses To Return To Their Villages

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With the exodus of people posing health risks, apex child rights body NCPCR urged migrant labourers to stay put wherever they are and make decision in the best interest of their children. It also advised state governments to accommodate children living on streets in school buildings to ensure that they are protected from coronavirus. (Image: PTI)

With the 21-day lockdown enforced to contain the spread of coronavirus leaving them without work and food, thousands of migrant workers, daily wagers and labourers from different states have started walking back home as public transport remains off the roads. (Image: PTI)

But with the UP and Delhi governments arranging buses to ferry those stranded on the state borders, many decided to take a chance, thereby crowding the Delhi borders. (Image: PTI)

Daily wage workers were among the worst hit by the lockdown and thousands started heading back home in different states. In the absence of availability of transportation, a large number of them undertook their long journeys on foot. (Image: PTI)

Many struggled to board the buses packed to the hilt. The police also made people de-board overcrowded buses to avoid spread of the infection. Good Samaritans distributed food to those preparing for their journeys. (Image: PTI)

Earlier in the day, the Uttar Pradesh government announced that it has arranged 1,000 buses to ferry migrant labourers stranded in the border districts owing to a countywide lockdown. (Image: PTI)

Although the police had made people stand in three queues, the serpentine lines didn't seem to end as there was a steady flow of migrant workers who wanted to go back to their towns and villages citing lack of employment due to the lockdown. (Image: PTI)

The Delhi government also announced that 100 buses have been deployed to help those trying to reach on foot their homes in other states, many of them hundreds of kilometres away. (Image: PTI)

Hordes of people, including women and children, with their bags on their heads and backs many also wearing protective masks - waited in long queues to board buses at the Anand Vihar Interstate Bus Terminal. (Image: PTI)