NEW DELHI: With India locked down over the coronavirus and no way to earn money, Dilipji Thakor faces a grim choice: Either walk home or die hungry.
Now they are trying to get home any way they can, often on foot, with little money or food, and eateries and guesthouses closed along the way.
Jamu Rathwa carried his daughter on his shoulders as he ambled along a highway from the western city of Surat, where until recently he earned around four dollars a day toiling on construction sites.Birender, a now out-of-work driver on the city limits of New Delhi, said that his family 320km away desperately wants him to come home in"any way possible".
They live in cramped apartments, working long hours for a few dollars a day in often unsafe conditions with no social security.India announced a US$23 billion welfare package to help its poorest citizens with direct cash transfers and food subsidies. "The numbers have dropped significantly today but we are still getting around 500 people per hour," Ram said on Friday.India announced Thursday a US$23 billion welfare package to help its poorest citizens with direct cash transfers and food subsidies that extends to migrant workers.
The chief minister of the eastern state of Bihar, home to many migrant labourers, has said his government will set up relief camps -- where he insists"social distancing" will be implemented.
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