Kids Are Falling Asleep On Suitcases, Surviving On Water - The Sad Reality Of Migrant Workers

Hundreds of migrant workers waited for hours in a queue to enter MGR Central railway station after they got to know that special trains are leaving to their home states.

A migrant worker takes shelter under the cart to avoid heat. Everyday, several guest workers reach the station by themselves carrying heavy bags, buckets, and other belongings trying to board the trains after they get to know from their colleagues that trains are leaving.

A migrant worker with his family on their foot to return home as he cannot afford to live here without work walk back to their home town in Srikakulam from Hyderabad.?Thousands of migrant workers are still walking along the highways and railway tracks even at the risk of being arrested or quarantined.

A migrant worker holds a child resting on his lap as he waits with others for transport to return to their hometowns in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states after police stopped them from crossing the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on foot in New Delhi

Children of migrant workers wash themselves using a water tanker as they wait for transport to go back to their hometowns.

Migrants worker family with their belongings waiting for transport to reach their native places at New by-Pass road in Patna.?Thousands of?daily wagers and others having?been rendered jobless and homeless due to a nationwide lockdown.?

A Migrant woman holds an infant in one hand and covers her son from heatwaves with others walking towards Borivali station to Gorakhpur.

Migrant workers arrive on Patna new by-pass road from different states by trucks and other private modes on way to their destinations during the nationwide lockdown.

Migrant workers have food distributed by local social workers in Patna.

Pregnant woman with her child follow Mangalhat police instructions stand in a queue with other migrant workers before boarding a bus to the railway station.