Topic: Daily wagers
Story of a 12-year-old migrant worker who walks 150 km and dies of exhaustion
Jamlo (Jeeta Madkam) was 12 years old. Sometime in February, she went to work in the chilli fields of Telangana. On April 18, after walking for three days with other labourers trying to return home during the lockdown, Jamlo died.
Migrant worker ‘steals’ cycle to reach home, leaves heart-rending apology note
Mohammad Iqbal left behind an apology note for the cycle owner.
Six migrant workers die after being run over by bus in UP
In a tragic incident six migrant workers, who were walking along the Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur highway, were killed after a speeding bus ran over them on late Wednesday night, ANI reports.
Five migrant labourers killed after truck overturns in Madhya Pradesh
Five migrant labourers died and 11 others were injured in Madhya Pradesh late on Saturday after the truck they were travelling in overturned in a village, around 200 km away from Bhopal.
1 lakh migrants from Bihar and UP seek to return to Haryana after state registers low corona cases
As the Centre has started running special trains to send stranded migrant workers back to their states, close to 1.09 lakh migrant workers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have applied on a Haryana government web portal to come to the state, Indian Express reported.
Congress state committees to pay train tickets of migrants returning home
The Congress on Monday termed historic party president Sonia Gandhi's decision asking all state committees of the party (PCCs) to bear the cost of the train fare of migrant workers returning home, and said its state units will work out the modalities of paying the Railways after coordinating with chief secretaries.
