migrant workers

Migrant workers trying to reach home have not fared much better in the week since the Aurangabad train accident that killed 16 people.
His comments came on the same day hundreds of migrant workers protested lack of food and transportation near Sendhwa on the Madhya Pradesh-Maharashtra border.
Dr Smarajit Jana also suggested that there is just one way to battle and co-exist with COVID.
The finance minister announced nine more steps as part of the economic package.
There has been a spate of accidents across the country involving migrant workers walking long distances to go back to their homes.
While the government has finally announced train services to ferry workers, the numbers have been too less to match the demand, leading to many still looking for other ways to get home.
As thousands of daily wage labourers make arduous journeys back home on foot, many aren't reaching their destinations.
The lockdown, workers from states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha living on Tamil Nadu's SIPCOT estate told HuffPost India, felt like a period of extended incarceration.
The man and his brother were among the 16 men who were run over by a goods train in Maharashtra.
There were nearly 10 lakh migrants in Maharashtra who wished to return to their home states and so far, 32 trains had been operated from the state, he said.