On a normal day, he would meet the Indian day Dayaram Kushwaha and his wife Gyanvati, dressed in bricks in a booming northern suburb of Delhi. Somewhere nearby, your five-year-old son plays on earth. But the blockade of the coronavirus in India left the couple without paints or money, forcing them to walk 500 km to their village in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
On April 21, Twitter users shared data on how the quarryer and his wife were unable to locate a task after the closure. Struggling to feed their circle of relatives and pay the rent, they made the decision to return to the village of Tikmagad to MP. After walking for 4 days and hitchhiking on cargo trucks, Kushwaha, despite everything, arrived in his village.
The 28-year-old is one of millions of internal migrants in India who have been forced to take long walking trips in recent weeks due to the blockade of coronavirus in India.
Hungry, thirsty and exhausted, as the couple walked among thousands, the police shouted at them to keep a file of singles, to stay away from each other to prevent the spread of the virus. When the adventure has become too difficult, Kushwaha devises his first child, who is seven years old. The couple had left him in the village with relatives on their way to Delhi for a living.
Kushwaha and her five-year-old son appeared in a series of photographs published through news firm Reuters and news from around the world posted the photos.
Twitter users shared these photographs and many similar stories to highlight the plight of millions of deficient Indians migrating from villages to villages in search of livelihood, and how the blockade has left them stranded, unemployed or without cash.
Many Indians ask what the government is doing with the country’s poor.
Tagging a legislator – rhulh5n12 published: “Stop blaming others for their shortcomings. Migrant workers, adding women and children, return home for days across India. It can’t even provide transportation, but it can provide several buses to the scholars of wealthy parents. Your ‘guarantee’ never ‘insured’. »
There are more than 40 million migrant workers across the country. Most leave villages to paint in cities as servants, drivers and gardeners, or as punters at structure sites, buying grocery stores, overpasses and houses, or as street vendors.
The Indian government said last month that aid would be provided to the poor. But apparently, not enough has been done to get the other right people to help.
@gupta_bikash: “Many unscrupulous political leaders in the states ruthlessly plunder essential products shipped through the Indian government to distribute to migrant and poor workers.”
The International Labour Organization (ILO) said last week that 40 million rupees (400 million) of Indians operating in the informal economy are at risk of falling deeper into coronavirus poverty.
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