2,500 workers make a bid to migrate

They were sent back to Guntur district in coordination with their Guntur counterparts

Published - March 29, 2020 08:03 am IST - ONGOLE

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A large number of migrant labourers blocked by the police at Tripurantakam on Saturday.

A large number of migrant labourers blocked by the police at Tripurantakam on Saturday.

Tension gripped Tripurantakam area in Prakasam district when a large number of migrant farm workers from Guntur district tried to return to their homes in Kurnool district when the lockdown was in force.

Over 2,500 labourers were stopped by the Prakasam police on Saturday when they came in 93 vehicles and they were sent back to Guntur district in coordination with their Guntur counterparts.

Superintendent of Police Siddharth Kaushal said: “People should remain wherever they are when the lockdown is in force as the inter-State as also inter-district borders are sealed.”

Those in trouble in the wake of the implementation of the lockdown could contact the officials concerned in the districts where they were stranded, for relief, he suggested.

Published - March 29, 2020 08:03 am IST

Collection - 206 stories

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Passengers aboard the Gorakhpur Kushinagar Express in Bhopal on April 10, 2021.

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Children of migrant labourers at an NGO-run school on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.

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The Nilgiris Collector J. Innocent Divya (centre) launching the free helpline in Udhagamandalam on Wednesday.

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Job beckons: Migrant workers, en route to Punjab, waiting for transport in New Delhi.

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Food and other belongings of victims lie scattered on the railway track after a train ran over migrant workers sleeping on the track in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra on May 8, 2020.

Data on migrant worker deaths | Madras High Court judge questions Centre

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Migrant workers coming from other states wait to get a Rapid Antigen Test for the COVID-19 coronavirus in New Delhi.

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The Union Labour and Employment Ministry has asked States and the Union Territories to organise free COVID-19 testing for migrant workers. File

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Friends and relatives of Kushwaha family who work as migrant workers walk along a road to return to their villages, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus, in New Delhi, India, March 26, 2020. To match Special Report HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/INDIA-MIGRANTS. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

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These Odisha migrant workers in Tamil Nadu are glad to have missed the train

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Migrant workers who wished to go home wait at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre in Bengaluru on May 15, 2020 for arrangements to be made for their travel.

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A railway staff distributes food packets to migrant workers sitting in Shramik Special train, at Prayagraj Railway Station. File

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Migrant workers undergo thermal screening at Jagannathpur Railway Station, in Ganjam district. File

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Farm workers from Sitamarhi, Bihar, work in paddy fields at Deh Kalan village in the outskirts of Mohali on Friday, June 12 2020.

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Supreme Court of India in New Delhi. File

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Migrant workers struck near the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border near Ghazipur on March 27, 2020.

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The fishermen returning to Odisha from Chennai by boat.

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Migrant workers in Kochi on May 19, 2020.

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Migrant workers waiting to board the Shramik special bound for Odisha at Chittoor railway station. File

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Migrant workers in Odisha set to go to a quarantine centre.

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Migrant worker Kiran Devi and her children walk along a road in New Delhi on June 3, 2020 to her home in Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh. Ms. Devi started her journey on May 23, 2020 from Jalandhar.

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Migrants labourers, who returned to Biripali village in Balangiri district, Odisha, opt to undergo qurantine under a culvert instead of of in government quarantine centres.

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The waning of subaltern solidarity for Hindutva

Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Kapil Sibal. File

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Final journey: Officials carrying the body of one of the passengers found dead on a special train in Varanasi. PTI PTI

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Yuthika Bhargava

A moment for civilisational introspection

CHENNAI; TAMIL NADU; 29/05/2020 : Migrant worker's kids are happy to board on a special train to return to their home town during the lockdown period at Egmore Railway station in Chennai on Friday.Photo: B. Velankanni Raj / The Hindu

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Coronavirus lockdown | Jharkhand flies its migrant workers back from Leh

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A screengrab from the video showing a child tugging at a sheet covering the dead mother.

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Migrants seen waiting in a camp for boarding the Shramik Special train in West Delhi, on May 28, 2020.

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Prayagraj: Cadets of Scouts & Guides provide drinking water to the migrants traveling in a Shramik Special train to their native places, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, at Prayagraj Railway Station,Thursday, May 28, 2020. (PTI Photo)(PTI28-05-2020_000177B)

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Migrants outside Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus to catch the Shramik train in Mumbai on May 28, 2020.

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Migrant workers from other States trying to return to their homes wait for transportation. File

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A screengrab from the video.

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Migrant workers wait outside a government school in east Delhi on May 18, 2020 to get screened before boarding buses to the Anand Vihar Railway Station.

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This combination of pictures taken on May 20-21, 2020, shows the feet of migrant workers in Ghaziabad and Allahabad.

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A migrant woman carries her belongings on her head as she walks past a wall painting of Mahatma Gandhi to board a train to her home state, at Hyderabad Railway Station in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, May 23, 2020. India's lockdown was imposed on March 25 and has been extended several times. On May 4, India eased lockdown rules and allowed migrant workers to travel back to their homes, a decision that has resulted in millions of people being on the move for the last two weeks. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

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Migrant workers from Mumbai reach Thane on their way to their hometowns on May 8, 2020.

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Migrant workers with their faces covered and carrying their belongings, walk along a railway track to return to their home state of eastern Bihar, during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ghaziabad, in the outskirts of New Delhi, India, May 13, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

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Food being served in one of the over 6,000 Mukhya Mantri Didi Kitchens in Jharkhand.

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Desperate migrants keen to return home

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Two held for ferrying migrant workers on forged pass

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Migrant workers queue outside the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus railway station in Mumbai on May 19, 2020.

A callous response

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Workers returning to Bihar caught between poverty of their villages and starvation in cities

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A police complaint has now been filed

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A policeman stands guard as migrant workers and their family members queue up for medical screening in New Delhi on May 18, 2020.

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Workers waiting to board a Shramik Special train.

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Yaqoob Mohammad trying to help his friend Amrit Ramcharan along a highway in Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh.

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Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan. File

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Migrant workers travelling in a truck in Patna, to get to their hometowns. Photograph used for representational purposes only

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Migrant labourers from Telangana arrive at Habibganj Railway station in Bhopal. File

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ANDHRA PRADESH, VIJAYAWADA, 14-05-2020: The arduous journey by road of migrant labour continues like for this small family from Chennai passing through Vijayawada on Thursday on way back home in Odisha. Photo: K.V.S. Giri/ THE HINDU

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ANDHRA PRADESH, VIJAYAWADA, 14-05-2020: The arduous journey by road of migrant labour continues like for this small family from Chennai passing through Vijayawada on Thursday on way back home in Odisha. Photo: K.V.S. Giri/ THE HINDU

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The truck carrying migrant workers to Uttar Pradesh that met with an accident in Guna district on Thursday morning.

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Amarnath Tewary

BANGALORE, 27/05/2011: (From left) Minister for Home and Transport R. Ashok, Former Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India M.N. Venkatachalaiah and Director, CHRI, Maja Daruwala at the release of a booklet on '101 Things you wanted to know about the Police But Were Too Afraid to Ask' at Yavanika in Bangalore on May 27, 2011.
Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

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Provide income support, restore jobs

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Going home: Migrant workers walking to their home State of Chhattisgarh from Bhubaneswar.

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Policemen attempt to stop migrant workers as they gather outside a registration camp in Jalandhar on May 10, 2020.

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District officals at the spot where a truck carrying migrant workers overturned on a highway in Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh, on May 10.

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Sagheer Ansari.

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Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba. File

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Migrant Labourers returning back from Maharashtra to Uttar Pradesh due to Coronavirus Lockdown on Saturday, May 9, 2020.

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Fourteen migrant workers were sleeping on rail tracks due to exhaustion when they were run over by the goods train coming from Jalna, said the police

16 migrant workers run over by goods train near Aurangabad in Maharashtra

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 23, 2019 Indian National Congress Party president Rahul Gandhi looks on during a press conference in New Delhi. - India's Rahul Gandhi on July 3, 2019 resigned as president of the main opposition Congress, taking responsibility for the party's second-straight landslide defeat to right-wing Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi in national elections. (Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN / AFP)

Opposition slams Centre for Aurangabad migrant workers deaths

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A view of a slum colony where migrants from Chhattisgarh live in Lucknow.

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Migrant workers boarding a train at Thivim Railway station in North Goa on May 8, 2020.

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Shahdol district officials interact with family members of migrant workers run over by a train in Maharashtra. Photo: Special Arrangement

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The train carrying 1,200 people left from New Delhi railway station around 3 p.m. on Friday.

Second train ferrying migrant workers leaves for Muzaffarpur

Contempt for labour: On dilution of labour laws

A migrant worker waits to board a train at Chikbanavar station in Bengaluru on May 5, 2020.

Karnataka to restart trains for migrants

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. File

4 CMs dial Yogi, want to retain labour from U.P.

Manfur Nishad and his sons wait for a bus at Lucknow’s Charbagh; (right) a passenger shows his train ticket.

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Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar. File

Coronavirus lockdown | Centre urges unions to convince labour to stay, return to work

Home at last: Migrant workers bowing after they reached the Hatia railway station in Jharkhand on Wednesday.

Migrant workers | Row over sharing of train fares

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Crammed together: Migrant workers with their families travel in a tempo on the Nashik highway on Wednesday to reach their village in Nanded district.

Who will pay for migrants’ travel, asks HC

Supreme Court must help migrants, says Anand Sharma

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Step by step: A migrant family walking on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway near Ghodbandar junction on Tuesday evening to reach its home town.

Migrant labourers hunt for cycles to go home

LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH, 06/05/2020: Migrants line up for thermal screening. Photo: Omar Rashid

100 migrant workers held near Silvassa town of Dadra and Nagar Haveli for rioting

“Battered by an oppressive economic system and now by an unpredictable virus, India’s working classes deserve long-lasting relief and comfort.” People arriving from M.P. receive bananas in Prayagraj, U.P. AP

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Jayan Jose Thomas

“The lockdown imposed by the government has exposed the deep fault lines in India’s labour market.” Migrant workers wait to board a special train to return to Agra from Ahmedabad. AP

No relief for the nowhere people

Ravi Srivastava

An NDRF worker at Bihar’s Danapur railway station sanitises luggage of migrant workers who arrived from Rajasthan on May 2, 2020.

Shramik special trains | Migrant workers, other stranded people to pay ₹50 more to get home

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A man disembarks from a concrete mixer truck in Indore on May 2, 2020. Photo: Special Arrangement

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Stranded migrants from Rajasthan arrive by Shramik special train at Danapur station during lockdown imposed in the wake of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, on Saturday, May 2, 2020

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Amarnath Tewary

Migrant labourers outside their lodgings in Velachery on Saturday. Photo: Special arrangement

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

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Migrant workers reach Hatia Station near Ranchi. A ‘Shramik Special’ train carrying 1200 migrant labourers of Jharkhand reached Ranchi on Friday.

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Satyasundar Barik

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Coronavirus | Odisha to step up screening of those returning to State

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Gautam Kumar said he is waiting for the lockdown to end so that he can go home.

Coronavirus lockdown | When a public toilet in Delhi serves as ‘home’

Hemani Bhandari

Labourers carry onion sacks on International Workers' Day in a west Delhi market on Friday.

Seal inter-State borders, orders Chief Secretary

Faculty of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad Campus, conducting the survey in Rachakonda Commissionerate limits.

TISS team generates data on migrant workers

M.L. Melly Maitreyi

Daily wage migrant laborers carries bags of food items on their handcart to be delivered at a shop during a nation wide lockdown to control the spread of the coronavirus, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, April 30, 2020. India says it has achieved tremendous gains and improvement in curbing the coronavirus infections through a stringent lockdown imposed across the country five weeks ago. The government recently allowed reopening of neighborhood shops in cities and towns and resumption of manufacturing and farming activity in rural India to help millions of poor people who lost work. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Coronavirus | U.P., Bihar migrants can now avail ration portability

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Making the long journey a tad less painful

Serish Nanisetti

Vividly imagining the life of migrant workers

Rajeev Bhargava

Safe return: On migrant worker distress

A health worker checks the temperature of a woman at a food distribution point in Noida on April 24, 2020.

Coronavirus | Uttar Pradesh to bring back migrant workers in phases

Getty Images/iStockphoto

How will India emerge out of the lockdown?

G. Ananthakrishnan

Double whammy: Migrant workers Mohammed Hakim (in blue mask) and others in south Delhi.

Locked out of cities, homes and livelihoods

Priscilla Jebaraj

A new bond: The team at work in the school near Sikar, brightening up the main building.

Coronavirus lockdown | In Rajasthan, migrant workers repair and paint government school that sheltered them

Desperate measure: Migrant workers gathered in Bandra earlier this month, defying the lockdown.

Coronavirus lockdown | Plan ahead for transport of migrant workers, Maharashtra tells Railways

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The State government said information was being gathered to provide assistance at all levels.

Coronavirus lockdown | Close to 6 lakh labourers from State stranded, says Jharkhand govt

Satyasundar Barik

Migrant workers from UP and Bihar at a government school in Azampura, where distribution of 12 kg rice and ₹500 per person is taken up by the Revenue officials, in Hyderabad on Saturday.

Data | 96% migrant workers did not get rations from the government, 90% did not receive wages during lockdown: survey

The Hindu Data Team

Migrant workers at a bus terminal in New Delhi in a desperate bid to reach their villages.

Opinion | The ‘nowhere people’ of COVID-19 need better legal safeguards

Vivek Kumar Singh

New Delhi, 30/03/2020. Migrant labourers seen walking with thier belongings at the National Highway 9 near Akshardham temple, during a complete lockdown to prevent spreading of Coronavirus in New Delhi on Monday, March 30, 2020. Photo by R V Moorthy / The Hindu

Police intercept migrant workers leaving Delhi, lend help

Migrant workers filling water bottles from a leaking Mission Bhagiratha pipeline valve on NH 44 in Adilabad.

Leaking pipeline valves, dried streams help migrant workers

S. Harpal Singh

Former Railway Minister and TMC leader Dinesh Trivedi. File

Select passenger trains should be run to take migrant workers home, former Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi

Sobhana K. Nair

1.31 lakh sugarcane workers in Maharashtra can now travel back home

A group of migrant workers from Odisha sharing space in an 150-sq.ft room in Bengaluru.

Coronavirus lockdown | Stranded in various States, Odisha migrants call home for help

Satyasundar Barik

Hard times: People standing in a queue to collect food on the banks of the Yamuna on Tuesday.

Coronavirus | Workers face heat, hunger as lockdown is extended

Sobhana K. Nair

Mumbai police dispersing workers gathered outside Bandra West Railway Station in Mumbai on Tuesday.

Coronavirus | Migrant workers protest outside Bandra railway station

Gautam S. Mengle

Disingenuous and no antidote

Mahesh Jena covered close to 200 km daily. Photo: Special Arrangement

Coronavirus lockdown | Odisha youth pedals 1,700 km from Maharashtra to reach home

Satyasundar Barik

Nitin Gadkari. Photo: File

Coronavirus lockdown | Flight of migrant labour a deep concern for post lockdown revival: Nitin Gadkari

Migrant workers in Laskana area of Surat turned violent demanding wages and a return to their native places. More than a dozen vegetable carts and shops were vandalised.

Lockdown | Migrant workers in Surat come out on road demanding salaries

A file photo of migrant workers lodged in a government-run shelter home in Patna.

Coronavirus | Migrant workers slip out of Bihar quarantine centres at night, return by day

Amarnath Tewary

Long wait: Migrant workers standing in a queue to collect food at a shelter in New Delhi.

Coronavirus | Centre files report on migrant workers

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Daily-wage workers and their children at a shelter home at Sarai Kale Khan.

Shelters see total occupancy of less than 12%

Children of migrant workers with lunch bags given by Chennai Corporation at Ambattur Estate.

Google introduces new feature to locate food, night shelters

A majority of the labourers belong to Odisha, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam. K. Pichumani

1.95 lakh migrant workers on govt. radar

Namma Navakkarai team prepare food for men on duty at the Tamil Nadu- Kerala border.

Community kitchens reach out to needy during lockdown

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Migrant labourers and their families at Kasan village in Haryana.

Migrant workers in Haryana worry about rent and wages

Amit Baruah,Ashok Kumar

Daily wage earners, labourers and migrant workers are at the greatest risk of economic and social insecurity.

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A group of migrant workers forced to take a detour to reach the inter-State border on Penganga river bridge in Adilabad district.

Stream of migrant workers leaving Telangana dries up

S. Harpal Singh

Govt. may have to present second Budget to deal with COVID-19 aftermath, says Jairam Ramesh

Food parcel at GRT Hotel. Photo: special arrangement.

Chennai hotels cater to migrant workers and those in the front lines of the battle against novel Coronavirus

Staying calm: A counselling session being conducted by a government-appointed psychologist.

Goa starts counselling for migrant labourers

Coronavirus | Lockdown triggers belated march of migrants from hills in Arunachal

TIRUCHI/ TAMILNADU: 05/04/2020: The seven men who were found walking by volunteers at the Chennai Bypass Road on the way to their hometown in Tiruvarur.

A gruelling journey from Maharashtra that ended on a sweet note

Kathelene Antony

Migrant workers begin to walk to Madhya Pradesh from Mumbai.

India coronavirus lockdown | Migrant workers and their long march to uncertainty

Omar Rashid,Jatin Anand,Ajeet Mahale

Migrant workers returning from other cities and States are being kept in primary schools or other buildings outside the village for a designated period before being granted entry to their homes.

Coronavirus | U.P. villages tense as many skip quarantine

Representational image

Coronavirus | Centre releases ₹11,092 crore under State Disaster Risk Management Fund

Special Correspondent

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had earlier made the State Disaster Management Department as the nodal department for setting up relief camps and quarantine centres as isolation wards for the migrants. File

Quarantined migrants attack officials in Bihar villages; run away from centres

Amarnath Tewary

Sringavarapu Kota MLA Kadubandi Srinivasa Rao interacting with migrant workers at Kothavalasa on Thursday.

With no help from companies, migrant workers out in the cold

K Srinivasa Rao

Some respite: The five workers of Uttar Pradesh are being given food and shelter by the district administration in Vijayapura.

The long and gruelling road did not take them home

People at a gaushala, converted into a relief camp, at Manesar in Haryana.

Inmates at Gurugram relief camp bored, homesick and restless

Two workers walking on the national highway towards Vijayawada on Friday.

A tedious trek to reach home

Trapped migrants in Capital long to be back with their families

Soibam Rocky Singh

The seized lorries in Coimbatore on Tuesday.

Coronavirus | Coimbatore Police intercept container trucks packed with migrants

Namakkal youth dies in Telangana

Double whammy: Migrant workers Mohammed Hakim (in blue mask) and others in south Delhi.

Coronavirus | Forced to stay back, these workers now battle hunger

Sobhana K. Nair,Priscilla Jebaraj

On an empty stomach: Beneficiaries waiting in a queue to collect rations at Shahpur Jat in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Coronavirus | Centre’s extra ration promise yet to be kept at PDS shops

Sobhana K. Nair,Priscilla Jebaraj

Migrants in Greater Noida.

Defiant migrants ready to confront anything that comes their way

A team of police officials distribute food pockets migrant labourers at Ambattur Estate in Chennai on Tuesday.

Coronavirus | Treat migrants humanely, Supreme Court tells officials

Krishnadas Rajagopal

Coronavirus lockdown | Centre again asks States to reach out to persons with disabilities

Special Correspondent

Migrant labourers working in Noida reach the Yamuna Expressway by walk in a desperate attempt to reach their hometowns.

Coronavirus | At ‘Zero Point’ on Yamuna Expressway, flight from hunger beats fight against virus

A bunch of people resting on their long walk home to their village, just off National Highway-8 towards Jaipur.

Coronavirus | Similar stories, very personal tragedies

Balmiki Kumar, a migrant worker in Patna.

An unending journey for the migrants

Amarnath Tewary

Police personnel check identity of motorists at a barricade over the Yamuna in Delhi on Monday.

Stranded non-Delhi residents struggle to return

Saurabh Trivedi

Migrant labourers seen walking along National Highway 9 in New Delhi on March 30, 2020.

Coronavirus | An unending journey to their homes

Amarnath Tewary

Video said to be of Kerala fire officials spraying soap water on interstate travellers in Wayanad

After UP, footage of travellers being ‘disinfected’ in Kerala surfaces; only ‘soap water’ sprayed, claims DGP

Additional CP (Crimes and SIT) Shikha Goel distributing food packets to migrant labourers at Classic Gardens in Hyderabad on Monday.

Beyond call of duty: police turn saviours for the hungry, homeless

Abhinay Deshpande

A migrant from Bihar explaining his woes at a shelter home in Visakhapatnam on Monday.

Migrants want to return despite getting amenities at shelters

Sumit Bhattacharjee

Migrant labourers, along with their families, halt alongside a road after they couldn't find any transport facility to return to their native places during the complete lockdown in Surat, due to coronavirus outbreak.

Ninety migrant labourers arrested in Surat after clashes with police

Police personnel confront stranded commuters below the “Zero Point” on the Yamuna Expressway, ask them to find a relief camp instead.

Coronavirus | With nil hopes at Zero Point, migrants face police batons

A screen grab of healthcare workers bathing migrants before entering the town of Bareilly on Monday.

Coronavirus: In Bareilly, migrants returning home sprayed with 'disinfectant'

Food being packed at a community kitchen run by Kudumbashree at the Kottukal grama panchayat in Thiruvananthapuram

Community kitchens come to the aid of many

Stuck in the middle: Hundreds of migrant labourers stopped by the police at Igatpuri check post on Sunday. They were sent back to Mumbai by train.

Migrant labourers sent back to Mumbai from Igatpuri

Migrant workers along with their family members walking down national highway.

Migrants throng KMP Expressway looking for means to go home

Migrant workers waiting to board buses at Lal Kuan in Ghaziabad on Sunday.

Coronavirus | Lal Kuan is the new epicentre of migrant exodus from Delhi

Spreading caution: Residents of Kankarbagh spraying disinfectants in Patna on Sunday

Coronavirus lockdown | Migrant workers not welcome back home in Bihar

Wait ends: Buses and waiting areas being sanitised in Jaipur on Sunday.

Coronavirus lockdown | After night-long ordeal, migrant workers in Rajasthan leaving by buses

No connection: Workers resting in Lucknow on Sunday as they could not find a bus. They were later transported home by a supply truck.

Coronavirus lockdown | In Uttar Pradesh, workers made to go round in circles

Photo for representation. Migrant workers along with their family members set forth to their their villages on foot, at Lal Quarter Bus Stand in New Delhi, on March 29, 2020.

Coronavirus | Migrant workers stage protest defying lockdown

Migrant labourers from Karnataka being given food packets by philanthropists at the Satavahana University campus in Karimnagar on Sunday.

Migrant labourers from Karnataka left to fend for themselves

K.M. Dayashankar

Migrant workers waiting to board buses at Anand Vihar bus depot in New Delhi on March 29, 2020.

Coronavirus | Exodus of migrant workers out of Delhi unabated but police block their entry into Anand Vihar ISBT

Photo for representation. Migrant workers along with their family members set forth to their their villages on foot, at Lal Quarter Bus Stand in New Delhi, on March 29, 2020.

Coronavirus | Migrant workers returning to Balarampur village in West Bengal told to live in trees

Migrant labourers working in Noida reach the Yamuna Expressway by walk in a desperate attempt to reach their hometowns on March 28, 2020.

Coronavirus lockdown | As inter-State buses dwindle, migrants are stuck on Yamuna Expressway with nowhere to go

A large number of migrant labourers blocked by the police at Tripurantakam on Saturday.

2,500 workers make a bid to migrate

Special Correspondent

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Distant dream: Physical distancing norms go for a toss at the Charbagh bus station in Lucknow. Photo: Special Arrangement

Coronavirus | Despite U.P. CM’s appeal, migrant workers throng Lucknow’s bus stands

Several migrant labourers from north Karnataka and States such as Assam, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and West Bengal live cheek by jowl in camps, including those at Kundalahalli, in Bengaluru.

Labourers in camps down to one meal a day as supplies deplete

K. V. Aditya Bharadwaj

Inadequate: The MAHAN Trust Mahatma Gandhi Tribal Hospital in Melghat is the only one in the area with an ICCU.

Youth dies in Maharashtra's Melghat as doctors suspect COVID-19, shunt him from one hospital to another

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Sea of humanity engulfs Kaushambi bus depot

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