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Covid-19 Exodus: Migrant Workers All Over India Walk Their Way Back Home
In the midst of a 21-day nationwide lockdown, thousands of migrant labourers from across the country, are returning to their homes on foot due to lack of transportation. There is a large section of labourers engaged in construction work, street vendors and kiosks and rickshaw pullers who earned wages to feed their families on a daily basis. But after the lockdown they have no way to earn a living and no other option but to head back to their homes. But even that has become difficult. Here's how they are covering hundreds of kilometres on foot.
In the midst of a 21-day nationwide lockdown, thousands of migrant labourers from across the country, are returning to their homes on foot due to lack of transportation. There is a large section of labourers engaged in construction work, street vendors and kiosks and rickshaw pullers who earned wages to feed their families on a daily basis. But after the lockdown they have no way to earn a living and no other option but to head back to their homes. But even that has become difficult. Here's how they are covering hundreds of kilometres on foot.
Migrant workers and their families walk along the highway as they leave for their villages during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Faridabad.
A group of migrant workers with their family walk to return to their villages as Prayagraj comes under lockdown.?
A large group of daily wage labourers?walks along a road to return to their villages as they leave New Delhi, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown.
An old woman carries her belongings with another migrant worker as they walk along a road to return to their villages, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown.
Labour who worked in Delhi carries his belongings as he walks along a road to return to his village even as state borders are blocked because of the 21-day long lockdown.
A woman carries her belongings as she walks along a road to return to her home, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease.
A man who works as a daily wage worker in Delhi carries his son on the shoulders as they walk along the highway to return to their village.
A migrant worker feeds his newborn baby as he walks on a highway looking out for transport to return to his village.?
Local residents in Ghaziabad offer food to the migrant workers who are returning to their villages, after the world's largest 21-day lockdown was imposed in India to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease.
Migrant workers rush to cross the road to return to their villages in Ahmedabad. Some NGOs and private sector players have also come forward to help the daily wage workers in distress.
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