: ‘I can’t even express my anger’: Confusion reigns as migrant workers in Mumbai struggle to get home #IndiaNEWS On April 29, the Central government made an announcement that filled Bheem Shukla

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‘I can’t even express my anger’: Confusion reigns as migrant workers in Mumbai struggle to get home #IndiaNEWS
On April 29, the Central government made an announcement that filled Bheem Shukla (name changed) with hope. After 40 days of a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus that left millions of migrant workers stranded, jobless and hungry, the government would finally allow them to return home.A mason living in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, Shukla assumed it was just a matter of days before he would be able to catch a “Shramik Special� train to Jharkhand and be reunited with his family in Giridih district. Through local social workers, he got hold of a registration form for migrant workers wishing to travel home, filled it up with the names of a dozen other migrants from Jharkhand, and went to submit it at the Dharavi police station on May 2.By May 4, however, most of Shukla’s hope had drained out.“The police said we first need to get a medical certificate to show we don’t have coronavirus, and then arrange for our own private bus to go home,� said Shukla. “If we had the kind of money to hire a private bus, wouldn’t we have gone long ago

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