Tragic stories of Indian workers affected by lockdown
There is no improvement in the conditions of labor in India. Even the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that it was almost impossible to stop the workers from returning to their homes.
The court also did not order the government to provide shelter and transport facilities to the workers.
Keep in mind that the lockdown has upset the workers so much that they have decided to cover thousands of kilometers on foot, which is why they are dying in accidents the next day.
In fact, 16 workers were killed last Friday when they were hit by a freight train in the Aurangabad district of the western state of Maharashtra.
Fed up with the lockdown, the workers had to walk to their homes. They had taken the railway line to their homes and when they fell asleep on the track, they were hit by a freight train.
The issue of the deaths of the 16 workers was taken up in court but Solicitor General Tsar Mehta said the government had made arrangements to bring the workers to their homes and they should wait their turn and show patience
A three-judge bench comprising Justices L Nageshwar Rao, Sanjay Kohli and BR Gwai heard the case and said, “How can you stop people from walking? Can anyone go after them and stop them? It's impossible for anyone to stop them. "
Speaking to a media house, P Sai Nath, a leading Indian analyst and founder of People's Archives and Rural India, said, "How many English language newspapers have published the names of the victims of the train crash?" They left the faceless, nameless world. This is our attitude towards the poor. If this was a plane crash, there would be helplines for information. If 300 people had died in the plane crash, their names would have been published in the newspaper. But who cares about the poor in Madhya Pradesh, eight of whom belonged to the Gond tribes?
Similarly, two more people were killed in different traffic accidents two days ago. Eight workers were killed in an accident in Madhya Pradesh, six in Uttar Pradesh and two in Bihar.
The stories of Indian workers are more heartbreaking than those who died from Corona, how they are forced to travel on foot, hungry, thirsty on foot, bicycles, rickshaws, autos, pick-ups, trucks and even cement mixers.
P Sai Nath says that giving only four hours to close the country with a population of 1.3 billion is no less than a big joke.
In India, 15 special trains for Delhi have been launched from May 12, while 'Sharmak' trains are being run for workers from various stations. But the workers' worries are not diminishing.
In India, meanwhile, about 4,000 positive cases of corona have been reported in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of victims to 81,970 and the death toll to 2,649.
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