Coronavirus Lockdown: Rajasthan migrant workers walk home from Gujarat | Deccan Herald

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March 27, 2020

In the past three to four days since state government invoked partial lockdown and then 21-day complete lockdown following the announcement by prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, thousands of migrant workers from neighbouring Rajasthan have left for home walking and hitchhiking with all transport facilities taken off the road.The mass exodus of the daily wager, mostly construction workers and domestic help, with their families is visible along the road from Ahmedabad to Himmatnagar in bordering Sabarkantha district to Dungarpur and Udaipur in Rajasthan. Police of two border districts told DH that with all hotels and restaurants closed, these workers find it hard to have food or even water along the road spread in nearly 200 to 250 km.On Wednesday, a group of around 40 to 50 workers were left puzzled when district administration tried to detain them as they were defying the complete lockdown. Sources said that after police officers intervened, they were allowed to go. Sources... learn more