My Father Gouri Shankar Rajhans Wrote On Plight Of Migrant Workers In Dainik Jalte Deep in March 2021

My Father Gouri Shankar Rajhans Wrote On Plight Of Migrant Workers In Dainik Jalte Deep In March 2021

My Father Gouri Shankar Rajhans Wrote On Plight of Migrant Workers In Dainik Jalte Deep In March 2021. The year 2020 was the year when India and World at large faced the fury of virus. The populace which watched millions of migrants trek on foot to their homes in rural habitat is a sight not easy to erase. This was after lockdown came into effect and there were no employment whatsoever. Most trekked on foot with fewer getting the opportunity to take a train or truck journey. These were those workers who were employed in commercial centres like New Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai Agra, Noida and would reside there and send remittances to their households in rural areas. With the onset of lockdown, the employment was not easy to trace, these workers went back to their homes in rural hinterland and once they reached there they heaved a sigh of relief. But that was little consolation with the passage of time.

Some of these workers had little land at their disposal and they sold them to see through this virus and even after one year of this virus their condition hasn't improved. In newspapers after newspapers the plight of migrant workers has been highlighted with the cautionary note on the hardships they faced which fewer can face with little help coming from governments concerned. A large number of young graduates from universities/colleges had to make a living by doing sundry jobs in rural areas. And they had to remain content with little earnings. These migrant workers have nothing to fall back on and are quite apprehensive of returning to those places where they worked as getting employment would be elusive. 

In States like Bihar some of these migrant workers who are young have taken to drugs and that has all the more made the entire landscape blighted. Some have disposed their land and with the money earned have opened shops. With no customers coming to their shops as none have earnings they are back to their decrepit state. These migrant workers even don't have resources that could enable them to trek to Delhi and Mumbai where they worked in factories and that is indictment of sorts. More so there is no guarantee that they would be employed in these factories by their owners. The need of the hour is that for these migrant workers the state apparatus should come to their rescue and replenish their skills so that they get employed. If that doesn't happen the plight of these migrant workers would essay a landscape of a society that did not listened to their demands and was indifferent and indifferent alone