Altogether 180 migrant workers reached Jharkhand from Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Saturday by a state-sponsored charter flight, expressing relief from over two-month-long hardships due to lockdown.
Migrants were flown back home from Andaman & Nicobar a day after 60 stranded workers returned to the state from Leh by a service flight arranged by the state government.
“The expenses of both the flights are borne by the Hemant Soren government”, an official statement said here.
The returnees will be sent by buses to their respective districts after health test, officials said.
The migrants said they were given food and shelter by the Andaman administration, NGOs and fellow natives, settled in the island for several decades.
