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Gujarat: Rushed back to village, but don’t know what we will do here, say migrant labourers -Aishwarya Mohanty

-The Indian Express

With small land-holdings, hilly terrains, water scarcity and parched lands, farming is neither profitable nor a dependable source of income in many villages.

Dahod: The ardous journey is not just what migrant labourers, who are returning in thousands from cities to their villages amid an unprecedented nation wide lockdown in view of the coronavirus pandemic, are facing. Deeper economic uncertainties stare at many of them back in their villages.

Sukhlal Solanki, 32, started his journey to Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh from Junagadh, where he worked as a contractual labourer, along with his wife, two children, his younger brother and his family after they were out of work for 10 days and ran out of food and money. Back in their village, they can stay at home with their elderly parents but they are uncertain about how they will sustain for the next two weeks till the official lockdown lasts.

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