Second Covid wave: No panic exodus but migrants cautious amid fresh curbs

The number of travellers at New Delhi Railway Station has gone up since the lull seen in November-December but it is still far less

It is around 3 pm at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CST) in Mumbai. Though it’s a Sunday, CST, which is a Unesco world heritage site, is not its usual crowded self. Apart from groups of passengers here and there, the platforms are hardly packed. Rakesh Kumar, 26, is waiting to board a train to his hometown in Bihar. He and his friends have decided to leave Mumbai.

“It was becoming difficult to surv­ive in Mumbai since my employer sto­p­ped paying me salary for the past two months,” he says. Kumar worked as a cook at a restaurant, which is barely