-Scroll.in Migrant Workers allege the administration stopped serving them food after shelters were set ablaze on Saturday. The banks of the Yamuna in Delhi have swollen up with men who cannot go home. On Tuesday afternoon, some lay curled over nothing more than a gamcha or cloth towel. A few guarded their bags and belongings by using them as pillows. Others had nothing on them apart from their clothes. Hundreds of these daily-wage...
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Coronavirus deepens struggles for Migrant Workers in Gulf countries
-The Indian Express A large number of migrants in the Persian Gulf come from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines. The loss of income will not just affect the workers but will also echo across continents in their home countries, which receive billions of dollars in remittances every year. New Delhi: As multiple countries across the globe try to grapple with the lockdown imposed due to coronavirus pandemic, migrants in the...
More »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...
More »Coronavirus: Indian labourers in GCC countries are in dire need of help, say experts -Varghese K George
-The Hindu They are at the bottom of the pyramid and have little access to healthcare, say migration experts S. Irudaya Rajan and Ginu Zacharaia Oommen. Migrants labourers have been among the worst hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most Indian migrants in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are at the bottom of the pyramid in their host countries. Infected in large numbers, and with limited access to healthcare, that is...
More »Lockdown: Migrant Workers in Surat come out on road demanding salaries -Mahesh Langa
-The Hindu More than 1000 persons assembled on street demanding to return to their home States. AHMEDABAD: Hundreds of Migrant Workers in Gujarat’s Surat city on Friday late night came out on roads demanding salaries and asking to let them go back to their natives. They took to torching vegetable carts and vandalising properties and shops along the road in Lasanaka area, a migrant hub in the city. Most of them work in power...
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