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When the Centre enforced a nationwide lockdown as Covid-19 hit India last year, the most visible plight was that of migrant workers making a punishing journey from cities to villages on foot. A year later, they continue to suffer with inadequate aid, unemployment and lack of vaccination preventing them from getting their lives back on track.
The Stranded Workers Action Network (SWAN), a civil society group that has been helping migrant workers and documenting their lives since the start of the 2020 lockdown, has brought out their ongoing crisis in survey reports over the past one year. As a bunch
