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The lockdown during March led to job losses and compelled migrant labourers to return from cities to their native places.
Over the decades, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have been the major out-migration states, followed closely by Rajasthan and Odisha. The major in-migration states have been Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat and West Bengal.
Covid-19 switched the sources and destinations of migrant labourers, as the charts show. The charts pertain to data of the Shramik trains that ran during the lockdown, but many opted for other means of travel, including walking all the way back home. Many died en route, but the Centre said it
