Report: 67% guest workers still stuck, most with less than `100
Study debunks claims that a large number back home
More than 70 days after the lockdown to contain Covid19 was announced, 67% of guest workers are still stuck in the places which they wanted to leave, 55% out of which want to go home immediately, according to a study.
The report by the Stranded Workers Action Network (SWAN), says 75 percent of those who are still stuck in places they have migrated to for work, do not have any employment. The survey, also highlighted the troubles they are facing with 63 percent of those who participated in the exercise saying that they have less than `100 left with them while more than threefourth still do not have access to rations.
More than 70 days after the lockdown to contain Covid-19 was announced, 67 per cent of guest workers are still stuck in the places which they wanted to leave, 55 per cent out of which want to go home immediately, according to a study.
The report by the Stranded Workers’ Action Network (SWAN), said 75 per cent of those who are still stuck in places they have migrated to for work, do not have any employment.
The survey also highlighted the troubles they are facing with 63 per cent of those who participated in the exercise saying that they have less than `100 left with them while more than three-fourth still do not have access to rations.
It debunked claims that a large number of people have reached their homes and there is no need now to run special trains as economic activities have restarted showing that 55
per cent of those stranded still want to go home. This is higher than the proportion of 33 per cent in April-end.
“The desire to return home immediately is not being driven by ‘sentiment’ alone as the narrative that has been whipped up by some media houses and officials suggests. Seventy-five per cent who
are still stuck in places they have migrated to for work, do not have any employment,” it said.
Among those who left, 44 per cent took buses and 39 per cent managed to get on a Shramik Special trains. Eleven per cent took trucks, lorries and other such modes of transport while 6 per cent made the perilous journey on foot.