Migrant workers return to Gujarat

Industry workers say while cash crunch continues to ail, work is definitely getting back on track

If not in ATMs in the country, remonetisation seems to have happened in industrial clusters of Gujarat.

Workers who had gone to their hometowns and did not return for work after Diwali (the festival was about a week before demonetisation on November 8) vacation owing to the demonetisation impact have now started trickling back to the industrial hubs in Gujarat.

Sample this: Almost all the diamond-polishing units in Surat are back into action, though at a lower capacity, with migrant labourers resuming work gradually. Morbi, the world’s third-largest ceramic products cluster, too, has seen workers returning from their hometowns. Good