Lockdown, job loss impacted 40 mn migrant workers in India: World Bank

Due to the global recession caused by Covid-19, remittances to India are likely to drop by 23 per cent from $83 billion last year to $64 billion this year, the report said

The nationwide lockdown in India which started on March 24 to curb the spread of coronavirus has impacted nearly 40 million internal migrants, according to World Bank.

The lockdown in India has impacted the livelihoods of a large proportion of the country's nearly 40 million internal migrants. Around 5,000,060,000 moved from urban centers to rural areas of origin in the span of a few days, the bank said in a report released on Wednesday.

According to the report titled 'Covid-19 Crisis Through a Migration Lens' -- the magnitude of internal migration is about two-and-a-half times that of international migration.

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