Hiding from police, trying to walk home in mid-summer heat: Plight of migrants continue

Hariram Chaudhary lost his mother five days ago and is impatient to return home in Bihar. He has slept for barely two hours since Sunday morning and has had nothing except 'murmura' (puffed rice).

The 25-year-old and his six co-workers left their rented accommodation in Dwarka Sector 8 on Sunday hoping to catch a train to their native states.

But 30 hours of walking hasn't taken them far.

"My mother died five days ago. I didn't know what to do. I went to the New Delhi Railway Station where a policeman told me all trains had been cancelled," Chaudhary said.

"Then someone told us that all migrants are going to Chhatarpur to register themselves for free train travel."