People wanting to return to their homes due to the concern of their livelihood gathered at the UP Gate border.
New Delhi| A 21-day lockdown has been imposed across the country to prevent the effect of coronavirus. However, on the fourth day of the lockdown Delhi witnessed a large crowd gathering around Anand Vihar Bus Station.
The crowd started swelling at adjoining Ghaziabad which later was extended to NCR on Saturday afternoon. People wanting to return to their homes due to the concern of their livelihood gathered at the UP Gate border.
Today's scenes from Anand Vihar terminal, Delhi where people didnt give two hoots to Social distancing.
The scale of human migration is just unimaginable. pic.twitter.com/gfxdXRyQLJ— (@BalpreetS) March 28, 2020
The government of Uttar Pradesh came into action and arranged for buses and got people off. By 8 o’clock in the night, a total of 400 buses of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh government had sent people from UP Gate border of Ghaziabad and Anand Vihar in Delhi. Still, thousands of people kept waiting at the Anand Vihar bus terminal.
The arrangements of the governments of the two states also proved inadequate. The police kept on appealing to keep the distance from each other and move slowly, but this appeal seemed ineffective.
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