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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Migrant workers face debt, job loss and separation from families -Damini Nath

Migrant workers face debt, job loss and separation from families -Damini Nath

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published Published on Mar 20, 2021   modified Modified on Mar 21, 2021

-The Hindu

A year after the lockdown, jobs are not only harder to find, they pay less

New Delhi/ Noida: Construction sites, industrial clusters, markets and homes in the National Capital Region (NCR) are abuzz with activity, but for the migrant workers who make a living in these spaces, life is far from normal a year after the country was locked down to curb the spread of COVID-19 in March 2020.

Almost a year since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the lockdown on March 24, migrant workers in the NCR are facing wage cuts, mounting debts and uncertainty over their families’ futures, many of whom have not returned from the villages due to the pandemic.

Mangal Dev, a plastic moulder working in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar, says he only worked three months in the past year. Having found a job in February, he says, and is slowly trying to pay back 35,000 in rent dues for his 4,500-a-month single room in Sagarpur. Faced with months of no income, he says he made the decision to send his family, including two school-going daughters, back to his village in West Bengal.

“Had I not sent my family away, my condition would have been worse,” he says. His daughters have stopped going to school. “We are looking to get them married,” he says.

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The Hindu, 20 March, 2021, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/migrant-workers-face-debt-job-loss-and-separation-from-families/article34117669.ece?homepage=true&fbclid=IwAR2tHOWi5fjFT_JideC4IJko-p3OTXBk7IrMzj0QR4ceEwkych6yAD82jtg


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