Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, Mar 29 (PTI) Labourers reaching Lucknow from Delhi and other states had a similar tale to narrate that they had no money and food, forcing them to return to their homes.

The state government has decided not to charge any ticket amount to any labourers, workers and families who are travelling in state-run buses, said Raj Shekhar, the managing director of the Uttar Pradesh State Roadways Transport Corporation.

KANPUR: A strange scene was seen in Jajmau area of the district on Friday. When the parents need more quarantine in these tough times, the young sons are not extending helping hands to them. 

It is they who approach the vendors to buy daily needs and the sons look at them standing in the front side balcony. How cruel are they to their aged fathers?

In the afternoon one vendor appeared on the roadside. Hearing his voice, the elderly father approached him. He purchased whatever vegetables he required but his son did not come down. It a clear case of callousness.

KANPUR: There is a complete lockdown as the residents stay inside the house. What they fail to obtain is the net pack for mobile. The shops are not open so a large number of mobile recharge seekers hanker from one place to another. As they don't have the facility for the online system, they look out for the shops set up along the roads.

New Delhi, Mar 27 (PTI) Thousands of migrant workers and daily wage workers crossed over to Uttar Pradesh on Friday and many others waited to do so, desperate to return to their distant villages even if it meant walking the entire way home.

Carrying their children, bags and any other belongings they could manage to bundle up, they walked in a steady flow of thousands from the National Capital Region (NCR) to their homes in Uttar Pradesh and beyond.

Kanpur: In view of the lockdown, the consumers are finding it extremely difficult to procure the needs of the daily use particularly the vegetables. Suddenly, one vegetable vendor entered the premises of a Housing Society in Jajmau area on Saturday, the overjoyed housewives rushed at the cart for buying the vegetables.

Badaun/Aligarh (UP), March 26 (PTI) A group of young men were forced by police to hop like frogs on a Badaun road for violating lockdown orders, the punishment reflecting the tough time migrant labourers face as measures to fight coronavirus leave them jobless.

The three or four men seen in a video clip are among hordes making their way to their homes in Uttar Pradesh after losing the jobs they held in the bigger towns and cities.

Kanpur: There is a complete lockdown in Jajmau area. The roads look vacant as shops neither remain open nor vehicles run. Even the highways passing through the area do find the movement of the tankers and truckers only. 

What is seen in the name of noise remains the morning humming when the residents run near the shops for obtaining daily necessities. Early in the morning time, the vegetable vendors also appear on the roadside or the spaces allotted for selling the vegetables.

Lucknow, Mar 24 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday declared the coronavirus situation a state disaster, a senior official said here.

"The state government has declared Corona situation as a state disaster relaxing procurement procedures for emergency medical equipment and corona-related medical consumables," the official said.

Initially, this relaxation is for a month, he added.

A formal Government Order (GO) has been issued in this regard, he said.

Allahabad, Mar 24 (PTI) The All-India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha (AIKMS) on Tuesday accused the Uttar Pradesh government of abusing people's democratic rights in the name of tackling the coronavirus threat and demanded an immediate release of its general secretary Dr Ashish Mittal and activist Umar Khalid.

In a press release, the organisation alleged that both were arrested to suppress the protest against the CAA-NRC-NPR in Mansoor Park of the city.

Lucknow, Mar 23 (PTI) People rushed to buy essential commodities and police stepped up their presence as a three-day lockdown began in 16 Uttar Pradesh districts on Monday to fight the spread of coronavirus

After the Janta curfew on Sunday, people in some areas were seen coming out to stock up on groceries. Some complained that traders had hiked the prices of vegetables.