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Former chief statistician Pronab Sen has warned that if food requirements of migrant workers with no income are not fulfilled amid a countrywide lockdown, then ‘food riot’ may be a real possibility.
In an interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Sen said that if the coronavirus pandemic spreads to rural areas, containment will be impossible. In the wake of the countrywide lockdown to combat the coronavirus threat, thousands of migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and other states have started returning to their home states from cities, including Delhi and Mumbai.
“The problem is that if food is not made available
