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One of the most traumatic fall-outs of the protracted lockdown in India is the plight of the migrant labourers. Many of them have lost their livelihoods after the factories were shut. For the last seven weeks, millions of migrant labourers, including pregnant women and mothers carrying small children, have been trudging to their homes as train and bus services were stopped from March 22 (now the buses have been allowed to ply selectively). Many of them have been covering 200 to 1,500 km on foot, while some of them have died on way in rail and road accidents.
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