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Why did the Centre put migrant workers through five weeks of anguish before letting them go home? -Ipsita Chakravarty

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Neither testing nor hospital capacities in rural districts seems to have shown much improvement since lockdown was imposed.

Five weeks after a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus was announced to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the Centre will allow migrant workers to return home. Five weeks during which hundreds of thousands of workers set out on foot to cover the hundreds of kilometres that lay between them and home, some dying from exhaustion. Five weeks of near starvation, lost livelihoods and despair. Five weeks of braving police lathis as they tried to get food and rations. Five weeks of being clapped into migrant shelters that have been described as jails.

Instead of putting workers through such prolonged anguish, why did the Centre not allow them to go home before the lockdown was imposed, when the number of reported cases of Covid-19 was in the hundreds instead of over 30,000?

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