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Migrant Workers' Crisis: Atmanirbhar March On Bleeding Feet

COVID-19:  Implications of the Lockdown on Migrant Workers Covid-19: Migrant workers are walking towards their home towns from Mumbai.  Author: Anuj Chaudhary When India is seeing the world's strictest lockdown amid coronavirus outbreak, there are many side-effects of this confinement. All formal enterprises and informal enterprises have halted their work since the lockdown has been announced. But daily wage workers have been left stranded hundreds of miles away from their home towns. PM Modi addressed the nation on May 12 and  announced a 20 lakh crore relief package which is nearly 10% of India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) but failed to address the migrant workers' crisis issue.  And on the top of that  PM Modi came up with "Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan" (Self-reliant India Mission), whereas migrant workers have already been following "Atmanirbhar Mission" and walking on their  sore and bleeding feet towards their home towns. Last week,...