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What Migrant Workers Are Revealing In SOS Calls To Us -Rajendran Narayanan

-NDTV

"I have a one-year-old baby and no money to even buy milk," said an aggrieved Krishna Mandal. Krishna, from Jharkhand, has been working as a daily wage factory worker in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu. He hasn't been paid since the lockdown began. Pampi Kumari and her husband from Bihar work as daily wage labourers in Gurugram, Haryana. She worked in a medical supplies company while her husband worked as a construction worker. She hasn't been able to work recently due to a liver problem and since the lockdown, her husband has not been paid his daily wages. They are left with only Rs 200 to survive the rest of the extended lockdown, added to which are Pampi's medical expenses that have already crossed Rs 10,000. Suresh Yadav, from Jharkhand, is a driver in a loading yard and has been stranded in Sundargarh, Odisha. His vehicle has been his home since March 24 and he only has Rs 50 remaining. He has neither accessories to cook with nor access to feeding centres.

These remind us of the lines from Led Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina: "Happy families are all alike. Unhappy families are unhappy in their own way."

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