-The Indian Express Confusion marked the initiatives — unlocking funds, ordering relief camps — with some states arranging transport for the returning migrants and others issuing frantic calls asking them not to move because of the danger of the infection spreading. New Delhi: As the national coronavirus lockdown entered the fourth day, the Centre and states scrambled to respond to an unfolding human crisis triggered by an unprecedented exodus of migrant workers. Confusion...
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Covid-19: At least 22 migrants die while trying to get home during lockdown
-Scroll.in One man suffered a heart attack while walking along the Agra highway. Some others, including children, were killed in road accidents. Thousands of migrant workers have been trying to get home, with many of them attempting to cross state borders, amid the 21-day lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Many of them have died. While the deaths of at least 22 such migrants are documented, the actual...
More »‘Better to die with families’ — no food or money, Delhi migrants prefer the long walk home -Samyak Pandey
-ThePrint.in The govt’s announcement of relief measures for 3 months triggered fear among migrant workers that the lockdown may get extended. This led to more rounds of migration. New Delhi: Scores of migrant workers continued to leave Delhi-NCR Friday, the third day of the nationwide lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this week. Most of the daily wagers, who left Delhi-NCR Friday, were the ones who stayed back in the hope...
More »Coping with coronavirus: Big challenge for India’s 37%— ‘internal migrants’ -Seema Chishti
-The Indian Express Jagdish (22), from Madhya Pradesh, does a mason’s work and is worried that even if the contractor gives money, that would be a loan, not relief. “It would be a very big government school when built,” says Kaushalendra Trivedi (45), a recent migrant from Gorakhpur, employed as a guard in Uttam Nagar in the national capital’s Rajkiya Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya. His family is five kilometres away in a makeshift...
More »Urgent government intervention needed for migrants in transit -Sanjiv Phansalkar
-VillageSquare.in With the countrywide lockdown to arrest spread of COVID-19, migrant workers who started returning home from destination sites are caught in borders with scant amenities. Government needs to intervene to ensure safe passage For the last ten days or so, state governments have been announcing movement restrictions and advisories about not moving. The lockdown trial euphemistically titled Janata Curfew was observed on the 22nd of March. Trains were stopped from that...
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