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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Today marks the first anniversary of the day the central government announced an ill-planned national lockdown. India is home to nearly 500 million informal sector workers with practically non-existent social security and the unilateral decision pushed them into perilous circumstances, triggering their great exodus from cities.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Berjom Pahadiya, a 54-year-old migrant labourer, had to walk 1,200 kilometres over seven months from Delhi to return to Jharkhand. His woes were compounded since he only spoke Santhali and was forced to beg for survival. On the way, he collapsed due to hunger near a railway line before being resuscitated by a civil society organisation. Among many such distressing stories was that of the illegal confinement and bondage of two Santhali women at a factory in Karnataka. They were rescued by another Santhali migrant worker, Nicholas Murmu, in May.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The working class in India has historically been treated with a combination of contempt and apathy. Several surveys and reports have highlighted the extent of loss of livelihoods and the corresponding hunger situation. Based on the Centre for Monitoring of Indian Economy&amp;rsquo;s nationally representative data, my colleagues at Azim Premji University (APU) showed that among men who lost employment in April 2020, about 68 per cent of the workers had a fall in income between December 2019 and August 2020. Women were the worst hit as 56 per cent remained unemployed even in December. Zooming in on the informal sector, another survey conducted by APU showed that earnings had halved in November and food insecurity increased. Ninety per cent of the respondents reported a reduction in food consumption during lockdown; of them, only 30 per cent respondents reported that food consumption was back to pre-lockdown levels in November.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The saga of unflattering numbers is reflected in other studies too. According to the &amp;ldquo;Hunger Watch&amp;rdquo; survey conducted in October 2020 by a consortium of organisations affiliated with the Right to Food Campaign, about 48 per cent respondents went to bed without a meal at least once and about 30 per cent had to skip meals &amp;ldquo;sometimes&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;often&amp;rdquo; in that month. There was a drastic reduction in the intake of nutritious food. The disproportionate impact on women has been a common feature across all the studies.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The saga of unflattering numbers is reflected in other studies too. According to the &amp;ldquo;Hunger Watch&amp;rdquo; survey conducted in October 2020 by a consortium of organisations affiliated with the Right to Food Campaign, about 48 per cent respondents went to bed without a meal at least once and about 30 per cent had to skip meals &amp;ldquo;sometimes&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;often&amp;rdquo; in that month. There was a drastic reduction in the intake of nutritious food. The disproportionate impact on women has been a common feature across all the studies.&lt;/p&gt;

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<p style="text-align:justify"><em>One year since the Covid-19 lockdown was imposed, there&rsquo;s been little change in the hunger levels and unemployment rate among migrant workers, especially women.</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Today marks the first anniversary of the day the central government announced an ill-planned national lockdown. India is home to nearly 500 million informal sector workers with practically non-existent social security and the unilateral decision pushed them into perilous circumstances, triggering their great exodus from cities.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Berjom Pahadiya, a 54-year-old migrant labourer, had to walk 1,200 kilometres over seven months from Delhi to return to Jharkhand. His woes were compounded since he only spoke Santhali and was forced to beg for survival. On the way, he collapsed due to hunger near a railway line before being resuscitated by a civil society organisation. Among many such distressing stories was that of the illegal confinement and bondage of two Santhali women at a factory in Karnataka. They were rescued by another Santhali migrant worker, Nicholas Murmu, in May.</p>

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Post-lockdown misery of India’s migrant workers -Rajendran Narayanan

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