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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why India’s migrant workers are returning to the cities they fled during the Covid-19 lockdown -Vikas Kumar

Why India’s migrant workers are returning to the cities they fled during the Covid-19 lockdown -Vikas Kumar

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published Published on Nov 1, 2020   modified Modified on Nov 4, 2020

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A large section of migrant workers surveyed who want to return have a single earning member, with family sizes ranging from four to eight dependents.

“I was very scared. What kind of a disease is this? How will I manage with my small children here? Whatever happens I will never return to Surat again.”

Durgabai, an Adivasi woman migrant worker from Udaipur, Rajasthan, was recalling her horrendous experience during the Covid-19 lockdown in Surat, where she had migrated with her family to work as a casual construction labourer. Her anxieties about returning to the city in which she had been stuck for 40 days with little food or money reflect those of the large numbers of Adivasi workers who migrate from tribal dominated, remote, rural regions of southern Rajasthan to large cities in Gujarat and Maharashtra.

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