NEW DELHI: The hurdles of daily wagers and labourers seem to have no end as hordes of people, including women and children, started returning to parts of the national Capital after Delhi Police sealed the border with adjoining states.
Thousands who reached Anand Vihar bus terminus on Saturday were trapped after police directed them to return back. Panic-stricken women and children started crying soon after the announcement made. Many of them refused to leave the place citing that they cannot survive in the city on their own as their savings are dwindling fast. They cited that the apathy of administration in addressing the prevailing concerns such as food and shelter has left them in lurch.
Amid fear, confusion, chaos and stampede-like situation, infiltration of labourers continued throughout the day on Sunday at bus terminuses across Delhi-NCR, Ghazipur and other bordering areas. Thousands of them even resorted to walking hundreds of kilometres to return to their home states.
“We have no food, water and money at all. We have become jobless and the factory owners/ landlords have asked to evacuate factory premises. The government has stopped vehicular movement. Hence, no means of transport is available for us. What options do we have now instead of dying of hunger? If we die, we want to die in our homes and that is why we have decided to walk all along highways,” said Pradeep Paswan, a labourer working in a factory in Burari area.
This story is from the March 30, 2020 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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