Article: 25,000 north Indian workers leave Pune; realty projects hit.

25,000 north Indian workers leave Pune; realty projects hit

Pune, Feb 24 (PTI) Fear continues to grip hundreds of north Indian labourers here, who are availing of every possible mode of transport to reach their hometowns, days after dust seemed to settle down on the violence sparked by MNS campaign against migrants.

Official estimates put the figure of workers who left Pune over the last fortnight in the wake of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's (MNS) anti-North Indian rhetoric at over 25,000, adversely affecting many projects of the construction industry which employs the skilled and unskilled labour from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

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