Written by Gauri Agarwal
A reverse migration was noticed all over the country during the spread of COVID 19 but it was difficult for migrants to live a normal life with the loss of job, income, and inaccessibility to general services during lockdown, they were forced to return to the urban areas. Many of them started to walk or cycle back. To eradicate the vulnerability of those migrants, the government started special ‘Shramik’ trains but the returned migrants are facing a lack of job opportunity and their average monthly income has drastically declined, which is a matter of concern from the standard of living point of view. The income is not only affecting them economically and socially but also greatly at mental level because of the high pressure of sustaining a decent life for their family. Availability of information about structure and status of migrants, more job opportunities, mental understanding for them, not instantly firing them because of own loss and funding them can help improve the situation.
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