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Migrant labourers go jobless with coronavirus lockdown across India -Ritwika Mitra

-The New Indian Express

Being jobless and stranded, migrants workers are not only struggling to make ends meet but are now also fighting a stigma as 'virus' carriers.

New Delhi: On Monday night, 23-year-old Mahesh Damor, along with five other migrant workers, realised they have no source of income to rely on in Gujarat’s Surat.

So they decided to walk - over 300 km from Surat to his village in Jhalod taluka in Dahod — with two brief breaks in Vadodara and Godhra. The initial coronavirus measures and the subsequent 21-day lockdown have rendered thousands of migrant workers jobless.

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