409: Hunger Crisis Bigger Threat Than COVID-19 for Migrant Labourers?
India has a rough estimate of 450 million people working in the informal sector and according to the 2011 census, 17 lakh homeless people.
They are the migrant labourers, the daily wage labourers, working in factories, manufacturing units, construction site, living in cramped houses, or makeshift homes, or even under flyovers, who suddenly have no work, no money, no savings, no transportation. Where do they go, how are they surviving this lockdown? Is the government doing enough to aid them through this lockdown?
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Producer and Host: Shorbori Purkayastha
Editor: Shelly Walia
References:
- Walking Home For 2 Days With 10-Month-Old On His Shoulders Amid Lockdown
- Migrants Made to Crawl as Punishment for Violating Lockdown in UP
- India coronavirus: $22bn bailout announced for the poor
- India’s COVID19 Financial Package: Rehashed Existing Programmes, Little New Spending
- Concerned citizens’ response to the COVID 19 relief package announced by the finance minister
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