-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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Coronavirus: ‘Why has Modi done this?’ Rajasthan Workers walk back home from Gujarat -Vijayta Lalwani
-Scroll.in While younger daily-wage earners were able to make the journey, the more elderly are stranded far from home with no Work. On Tuesday evening, Dashrath Yadav sat at a bus stop in Ahmedabad, listening keenly to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation. The 32-year-old daily-wage earner gathered that there was to be 21-day nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, the strain of coronavirus that has claimed 10...
More »Nirmala Sitharaman announces Rs. 1.70 lakh crore package for poor
-The Hindu Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced a Rs. 1.70 lakh crore package which is likely to benefit 80 crore people. In her second media conference in a week, Ms. Sitharaman announced a slew of welfare decisions as the nation is under lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic. Here are the highlights from her speech: * The Finance Minister announced ₹1.70 lakh crore package Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Yojana, targetting 80 crore people. *...
More »Migrant labourers go jobless with coronavirus lockdown across India -Ritwika Mitra
-The New Indian Express Being jobless and stranded, migrants Workers are not only struggling to make ends meet but are now also fighting a stigma as 'virus' carriers. New Delhi: On Monday night, 23-year-old Mahesh Damor, along with five other migrant Workers, realised they have no source of income to rely on in Gujarat’s Surat. So they decided to walk - over 300 km from Surat to his village in Jhalod taluka in...
More »Coronavirus lockdown forces migrant Workers to walk from Manesar to home in Uttar Pradesh -Ashok Kumar
-The Hindu The 21-day lockdown has suddenly left several thousand Workers in the informal sector without jobs and any means of sustenance. It is around 3 p.m. Carrying luggage on their backs and wearing black masks, seven men, visibly fatigued, are signalled to stop by a policeman who hurriedly jumps out of his vehicle at Rajiv Chowk on the Delhi-Gurugram highway. The officer makes a few inquiries before letting them off, asking...
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