: Covid-19 lockdown: As some migrant workers reach home, there’s relief – and anxiety about the future #IndiaNEWS At midday on May 5, Uday Prasad Gupta finally reached home in Jharkhand’s Garhwa

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Covid-19 lockdown: As some migrant workers reach home, there’s relief – and anxiety about the future #IndiaNEWS
At midday on May 5, Uday Prasad Gupta finally reached home in Jharkhand’s Garhwa district, completing the journey he had begun more than a month before. Thirty nine-year-old Gupta was in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam where he worked as a foreman in a mechanical engineering company when the Indian government announced a near-complete lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus starting the midnight of March 25 – at merely four hours’ notice.Like millions of other migrant workers, Gupta was left stranded with very little money and resources in a place he barely knew. He had moved to Visakhapatnam less than three weeks before and was yet to receive a salary from his new employers.On April 29, after the Union home ministry allowed movement of stranded workers more than a month into lockdown, several states sent buses to ferry workers back home. On May 1, the Centre also announced special trains on certain routes for migrants. Gupta came home in one of the buses sent by the Jharkhand government to Orissa where he and around 50 others from the state had been stranded for the past month. A long journey On March 29, days after the lockdown was announced, Gupta along with co-workers from Jharkhand set...Read more

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