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Jobless, Homeless And Miles Away From Home: The Sad Reality Of Migrant Workers

The 21-day lockdown by the government was meant to control the spread of coronavirus. Unfortunately, the hastily announced restrictions left lakhs of migrants workers all over the country jobless and homeless with nowhere else to go. These heartbreaking pictures throw light on the reality of the nationwide exodus.

Anuj Tiwari Updated on Apr 01, 2020, 16:00 IST

The 21-day lockdown by the government was meant to control the spread of coronavirus. Unfortunately, the hastily announced restrictions left lakhs of migrants workers all over the country jobless and homeless with nowhere else to go. These heartbreaking pictures throw light on the reality of the nationwide exodus.

Disinfectant gets sprayed on a group of people sitting on the ground in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. The use of chemicals was not only dangerous but also demeaning.

Migrant workers are bearing the brunt of the lockdown. Since industries have shut down, the workers have no jobs and hence no money. With no shelter or money to survive,?they have set out on foot?to get to their respective villages, hundreds of kilometres away.

This is what walking for kilometres on end in rubber slippers can do to you. The injured foot of a daily wage labourer paints a heartbreaking picture as he rests on the way to his village.

There is now a reverse migration taking place in India. The daily wage workers from different parts of the country are now heading home. With no means of transport, they have to carry the injured on their shoulders.

A migrant worker's daughter, quarantined along with her parents while on the way to their village, waits for her father to return with food packets at a government school in New Delhi.

Once home, they are finding their own villages in blocking their entry. Some in West Bengal had to make trees their temporary homes; while hundreds left relief camps and hit the roads in Kerala in protest.

The?COVID-19 pandemic has spawned a new crisis in India - of a mass exodus of migrant workers engulfing various parts of the country, including the national capital.

Thousands of migrant workers are still walking along the highways and railway tracks even at the risk of being arrested or quarantined.

Migrant workers sleep beside the road near Prakasam barrage during the nationwide lockdown in Vijayawada.?Millions of homeless and daily wage earners in India are more vulnerable to starvation?now.

Thousands of daily wagers and others having been rendered jobless and homeless due to a nationwide lockdown.

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Anuj Tiwari writes stories for SEO and is a Youtube wizard. An engineer turned social media champ, he keeps a track of all that goes around the world. His interest areas include historic events, political and social-sciences.

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