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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Jharkhand migrant worker walks 7 months to get home -Animesh Bisoee

Jharkhand migrant worker walks 7 months to get home -Animesh Bisoee

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published Published on Mar 14, 2021   modified Modified on Mar 14, 2021

-The Telegraph

Jobless in lockdown, 54-year-old who speaks only Santhali started journey from Delhi in August

Jamshedpur: Of the tens of thousands of hapless migrant workers who had set out to walk hundreds of miles home after the lockdown was announced, one reached his village on Saturday.

Berjom Bamda Pahadiya arrived home at Amarbitha in Sahebganj district of Jharkhand on March 13 after a seven-month trudge from Delhi, 1,200km away, showing remarkable resilience for a 54-year-old in surviving odds that had felled many a younger man.

He had not a paisa on him — his labour contractor in Delhi had not only withheld his entire pay, he had snatched all his money, Pahadiya says.

He walked along the railway tracks in his torn rubber slippers, asking his way home — not too successfully perhaps, for he speaks no Hindi and only Santhali, which may partly explain why it took him so long.

He had to beg for food and water at villages on the way, again the language barrier coming in the way. He had not eaten for a fortnight, he says, when an NGO worker spotted him at a railway crossing in Dhanbad district on March 11, about 240km from his home.

Pahadiya had started his journey late, in August — far later than his peers who had left Delhi on foot in April or on Shramik Special trains in May-June.

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The Telegraph, 14 March, 2021, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/jharkhand-migrant-worker-walks-7-months-to-get-home/cid/1809426


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