Monday, August 10, 2020

1 in 4 migrants forced to walk home: Survey

A comprehensive survey, covering 25,371 respondents in rural India, including households with 963 migrants who had returned during the lockdown, found that 22.5% or about one in four migrants interviewed said they undertook the journey on foot, while another 6.9% percent partly walked and used vehicular transport. About 2.6% said they cycled back to their villages.

from Times of India https://ift.tt/3kB8KeG

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