MUMBAI migrant laborers

MUMBAI: Nearly two months after a nationwide lockdown was launched to curb the coronavirus, the central government has eased sanctions for migrant laborers to return home.  

Many migrants tend to drive in lorries and tempo vehicles, though they have arranged shuttle trains and RTC buses for their evacuation.  This causes the corona to spread without traveling the physical distance!  Thousands of migrants from various states live in the national capital of Mumbai.  Due to the lockdown, all of them lost their jobs due to lack of employment.  They are traveling in private vehicles, preparing to travel to their hometowns.

Each person is charged Rs.
 If you go to the buses, you have to go to the borders of the states.  Many people are worried that they will have to move to stations that are far from their destinations.  In order to get back to their hometown from this point, alternative transport arrangements have to be made, he said.  Instead, they feel that if they travel in lorries and tempo vehicles, they can go down near their hometowns.  This is the best way to travel.  On the other hand, lorry drivers and the owners of tempo vehicles are doing vertical exploitation from migrant workers.  If you travel from Mumbai to Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand, you are charging around Rs.  However, they are also paying a higher amount of money to travel to their hometowns.

However, before the relaxation of the embargo, many migrants were able to move the tattabutta and walk on the national highways.  Locals who live along the roads say that the number of people who walk there is greatly reduced as transport facilities have improved.  Maharashtra has the highest number of coronal cases in the country.  Now a large number of migrants are unable to follow the physical distance as they gather in lorries and other vehicles.  This could not increase the number of cases.  On the other hand, some migrants have booked online to go on labor trains but have not responded properly.  Umesh Kumar, a laborer, explained that there was no return to the police stations for permits.  Against this backdrop, it is difficult to move, he said.  Meanwhile, many of the roadblocks are in danger of migrants getting home.  It is noteworthy that lorries in particular are losing their lives in accidents.