Lack of jobs force migrant labourers to return to cities they left in March -Shinjini Ghosh

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published Published on Aug 16, 2020   modified Modified on Aug 17, 2020

-The Hindu

With few job opportunities in villages, migrant labourers who had left the city in March are returning in droves

The Anand Vihar bus terminal — where thousands of migrant workers had assembled four months back in a desperate bid to return to their home towns after a nationwide lockdown was announced — is again abuzz with labourers, but this time they are desperate to return to the city.

With the lockdown virtually shutting down the economy, labourers said they were “forced” to return to their villages in March; and are now coming back in the “hope” of finding work again.

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The Hindu, 16 August, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/they-are-back/article32370322.ece?homepage=true


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