Home is not a place...
It's a feeling
The Covid-19 is in full blossom as recently we have crossed 1 lakh mark. The very disheartening thing at this time is the condition of the migrants.
From not having anything to eat to the hope of reaching their home, they are the worst hit.
On March 24 our Prime Minister has announced the lockdown, and right now we are in the lockdown 4.0. From the first day of the lockdown to date there comes the many changes in our behavior. From being panic to finding peace and the enormous amount of creative ideas that we are hunting in ourselves. Not too bad conditions for ourselves as they are for the migrants.
As per the 2011 census, there are 56 million migrants in India. They are the people who travel from one state to another in search of their livelihood. When the lockdown announced and everything gets shut, they are left with no choices but to wait. With a little bit of saving in their hand, they are coping with the situation.
There are many who started to walk towards their home by no means of transport, some of them couldn't make it. Now the situation in which they want to be home is just to be safe. This is time there are not working anywhere and not earning so back home is one such idea which is way more comfortable than standing in the city which is no more their own. One of the things is that they want to be with their family in this crucial time and having a thought that if they will be home they have not to worry about the food. A kind of satisfaction also is triggering the flow which is ok.
Now the government is providing the trains and buses for the migrants, but the one thing which comes in a spotlight that many of the migrants are not taking the shramik trains because they don't want to be quarantined for14 days which is one of the biggest hurdle in the way of their family. This is also the reason that they are tracking the loopholes to get home just because they do not want to get caught by cops.
Many of the migrants lose their lives in truck accidents and one of the reasons is the long hour of the driving on the road as they want to get home as fast as they can.
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