Corona and India’s largest workforce

The lockdown, and loss of jobs, lays bare the plight of India’s millions of internal migrants. Most of these poor migrants are daily wage workers who are now out of work as businesses and establishments have shut down. In the absence of money and jobs, and bereft of any food, savings, or shelter in large cities, they are desperate to reach their villages. But with railway and bus services suspended amid the lockdown, there were few options other than simply packing up and trying to walk the often-vast distance back home. Content drafted from Hindustan times, Diplomat and Business Standard.