India failed its migrant workers again during the second wave of Covid-19
Amid massive job losses, up to a 51% decline in earnings and reduced food intake, labourers struggled through the lockdown in Gujarat.
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Coronavirus lockdown 2020: 8,733 people, many of them migrant workers, died along railway tracks
The Railway Board shared the data on the deaths that occurred between January and December 2020.
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Second wave of Covid-19 has left migrant workers in India with no savings and few jobs
As India reported a record number of coronavirus cases and deaths, the migrant crisis continued.
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Savings dry up, few jobs: Covid second wave hits migrant workers harder
Sudhir Paswan, 29, is back to square one--in his village in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, counting his losses. It has been more than a week since he returned, after failing to secure a job in Delhi. A labourer who loaded and unloaded goods in Delhi's Okhla Industrial Area, he would earn between Rs 200 and Rs 700 a day. "Since the lockdown, there was no work and access to food and essentials became difficult. I had to leave the city," he said. Over 800,000 migrants left India's capital, for instance, for their hometowns in 2021. Paswan is just one of them. Jobs have been hit harder since the...
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Tackling rural economic distress
There is an urgent need to strengthen the public distribution system and the MGNREGS
Source: thehindu.com