However, unlike other toll plazas, this facility began reporting human activity just after four days and became a mute witness to momentous exodus for the next 45 days. Thousands of workers got dropped off on Adilabad bypass road or the stretch of NH-44 between Chanda (T) junction and Pipparwada toll plaza. “As more workers began converging at the toll plaza, it became somewhat easy for us to organise transport for them. But the journey of most got terminated at Pipparwada toll plaza and it was from here that they got a lift for their onward journey. The activities of the civil society, too, got concentrated at the toll plaza once it gained in prominence as a milling point for the workers.

Source: The Hindu May 29, 2020 16:24 UTC